He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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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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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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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 mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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