The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERHighs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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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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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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