Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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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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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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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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