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Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? Picture Quote #1

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly Picture Quote #1

I hope you never love anything as much as I love you Picture Quote #1

But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere Picture Quote #1

But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you Picture Quote #1

But I knew the truth and that’s why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment Picture Quote #1

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Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world’s problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there Picture Quote #1

Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents Picture Quote #1

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?’ ‘Because they aren’t true.’ ‘Never?’ ‘Nothing is beautiful and true Picture Quote #1

I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything Picture Quote #1

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God Picture Quote #1

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what’s going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am Picture Quote #1

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There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on Picture Quote #1

I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that they learn about it from my wife and me, in a deliberate and safe way. But it’s hard to imagine ever feeling ready to broach the subject without some impetus Picture Quote #1

In America right now, we use words like ‘smart’ to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it’s very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words Picture Quote #1

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user’s manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things Picture Quote #1

Why didn’t he say goodbye? I gave myself a bruise. Why didn’t he say ‘I love you’? Picture Quote #1

What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife Picture Quote #1

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We can’t plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying Picture Quote #1

Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It shouldn’t be the consumer’s responsibility to figure out what’s cruel and what’s kind, what’s environmentally destructive and what’s sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don’t need the option of buying children’s toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don’t need the option of buying factory-farmed animals Picture Quote #1

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It was inevitable: Yankel fell in love with his never-wife. He would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depressed the bed next to him, remember in earnest the weight of gestures she never made, long for the un-weight of her un-arm slung over his too-real chest, making his widower’s rememberences that much more convincing and his pain that much more real Picture Quote #1

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful Picture Quote #1

Oskar Schell: If the sun were to explode, you wouldn’t even know about it for 8 minutes because thats how long it takes for light to travel to us. For eight minutes the world would still be bright and it would still feel warm. It was a year since my dad died and I could feel my eight minutes with him... were running out Picture Quote #1

The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity Picture Quote #1

Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration. Mirror Sadness. Sadness of Domesticated Birds. Sadness of Being Sad in front of One’s Parent. Humor Sadness. Sadness of Love Without Release Picture Quote #1

Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming Picture Quote #1

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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) I hope you never love anything as much as I love you (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) But I knew the truth and that’s why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world’s problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) Why do beautiful songs make you sad?’ ‘Because they aren’t true.’ ‘Never?’ ‘Nothing is beautiful and true (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what’s going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that they learn about it from my wife and me, in a deliberate and safe way. But it’s hard to imagine ever feeling ready to broach the subject without some impetus (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) In America right now, we use words like ‘smart’ to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it’s very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user’s manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) Why didn’t he say goodbye? I gave myself a bruise. Why didn’t he say ‘I love you’? (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) We can’t plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals? (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) 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 Quotes) Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) 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 (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) It shouldn’t be the consumer’s responsibility to figure out what’s cruel and what’s kind, what’s environmentally destructive and what’s sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don’t need the option of buying children’s toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don’t need the option of buying factory-farmed animals (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) It was inevitable: Yankel fell in love with his never-wife. He would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depressed the bed next to him, remember in earnest the weight of gestures she never made, long for the un-weight of her un-arm slung over his too-real chest, making his widower’s rememberences that much more convincing and his pain that much more real (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) Oskar Schell: If the sun were to explode, you wouldn’t even know about it for 8 minutes because thats how long it takes for light to travel to us. For eight minutes the world would still be bright and it would still feel warm. It was a year since my dad died and I could feel my eight minutes with him... were running out (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration. Mirror Sadness. Sadness of Domesticated Birds. Sadness of Being Sad in front of One’s Parent. Humor Sadness. Sadness of Love Without Release (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes) Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming (Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes)

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