Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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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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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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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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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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