Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERYou are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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