And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERNinety-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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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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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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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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 don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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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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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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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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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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