I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERMy 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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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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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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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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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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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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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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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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 mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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