We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERBeing with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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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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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 felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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