We spent our lives making livings.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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What does it remember like?
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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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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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You 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.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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