Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
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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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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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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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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 could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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