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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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Feeling Goodness Reliable Trust
Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Hear Return Time Yourself
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 FOER

Animal Irony Time
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Brain Invention Myself Quiet
And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Believe God Love Myself
Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.
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Appearance Himself Night Sleep Steal
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work
Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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Animal Cat Dog Farm Illegal Practice Treat Way
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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Happiness Myself Thinking Time
She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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Bird Herself Laughter Migrate
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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Equality Fingers Respond Responsibility Throw Yourself
Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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Car Design Faith Writing
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Day Family Hate Love Oneself Yourself
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Life Lose Myself Remember Try
The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Animal God Love
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Complete Empty Feeling Myself Need

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