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 FOERSometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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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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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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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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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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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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