Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERChoosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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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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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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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 can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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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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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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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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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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