There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERCruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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My 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.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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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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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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