I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
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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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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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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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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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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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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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What does it remember like?
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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.
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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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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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