I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERNot responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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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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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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If 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.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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