It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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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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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.
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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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 shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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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 philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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