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 FOERNot responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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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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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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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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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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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 dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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