Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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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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What does it remember like?
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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