Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERNot 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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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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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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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