Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERMy wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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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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He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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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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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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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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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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