You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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 never confused what I had with what I was.
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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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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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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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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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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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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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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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We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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