We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIs that growing old? Or is it something worse?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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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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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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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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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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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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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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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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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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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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