Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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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I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.
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I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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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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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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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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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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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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