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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERHe 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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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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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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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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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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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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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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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