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Jonathan Safran Foer Inspirational Quotes (288)

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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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Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn't see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?
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September 11 had such a strong visual component, the most visually documented event in human history. Nothing's ever been seen by as many people as that was. Our experiences of the day, our memories of the day are just so tied up in images of buildings falling and bodies falling.
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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.
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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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But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.
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I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say.
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It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.
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I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.
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...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope.
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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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People hurt each other. That's what people do.
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He Wrote, Are you OK? I told him, My eyes are crummy. He wrote, But are you OK? I told him, That's a very complicated question. He wrote, That's a very simple answer. I asked, Are you OK? He wrote, Some mornings I wake up feeling grateful.
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The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing Hey Jude. It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how.
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Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.
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I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why you shouldn't do it.
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Hunting will never feed lots of people it will always be a hobby.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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