So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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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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My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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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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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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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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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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