The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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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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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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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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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 love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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