Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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With writing, we have second chances.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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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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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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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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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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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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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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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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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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