I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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What does it remember like?
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Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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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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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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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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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Not 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.
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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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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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