We spent our lives making livings.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEREverything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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With writing, we have second chances.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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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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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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What does it remember like?
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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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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I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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