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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
Jonathan Safran Foer
She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
Jonathan Safran Foer
She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes
Jonathan Safran Foer
I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.
Jonathan Safran Foer
The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.
Jonathan Safran Foer
I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Hunting will never feed lots of people it will always be a hobby.
Jonathan Safran Foer
It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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.
Jonathan Safran Foer
He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
Jonathan Safran Foer
There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.
Jonathan Safran Foer
We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.
Jonathan Safran Foer
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern.
Jonathan Safran Foer
I'm deeply curious about Jewish things. I've toyed around with the idea of going to rabbinical school.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Yesterday I wanted to turn inside out.
Jonathan Safran Foer