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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERAlso, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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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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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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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 thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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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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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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