I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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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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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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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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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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