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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEROne of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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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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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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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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I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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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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I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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