It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERLet love write on you for awhile.
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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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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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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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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