Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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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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We spent our lives making livings.
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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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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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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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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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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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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What does it remember like?
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