Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERAs long as I am thinking, I am alive.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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What does it remember like?
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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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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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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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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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