People with nothing to declare carry the most.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWhy does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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