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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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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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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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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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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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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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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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