It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIs that growing old? Or is it something worse?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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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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Do 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?
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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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Only humans can cry tears.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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