I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSilently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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What does it remember like?
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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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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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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