We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIf I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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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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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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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 thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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