I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWhile it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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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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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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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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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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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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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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