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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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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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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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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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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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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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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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