If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERDo you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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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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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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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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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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The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
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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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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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