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I think after you live it's like before you lived.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
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I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.
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And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt?
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And yet and yet - the last secret of the tree of codes is that nothing can ever reach a definite conclusion. Nowhere as much as there do we feel possibilities shaken by the nearness of realization. The atmosphere becomes possibilities and we shall wander and make a thousand mistakes. We shall wander along yet not be able to understand.
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What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?
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All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.
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Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
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I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.
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I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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...people with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals. Can we tell a new story?
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When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.
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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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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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How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.
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Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.
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I'm deeply curious about Jewish things. I've toyed around with the idea of going to rabbinical school.
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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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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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and i wouldn't say no to something sweet.
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