And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEREvery factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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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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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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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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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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