She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERAs long as I am thinking, I am alive.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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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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What does it remember like?
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Choosing 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.
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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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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
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