It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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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What does it remember like?
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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