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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIf I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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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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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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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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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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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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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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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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