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Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Sadness and joy aren’t opposites of each other. They are each the opposite of indifference.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “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 Quote: “I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That’s not what they’re doing. They’re feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “We spent our lives making livings.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I’d lost count of the disappointments.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “But unlike all farmed meat, which requires the creation and maintenance of animals, dogs are practically begging to be eaten. Three to four million dogs and cats are euthanized annually. This amounts to millions of pounds of meat now being thrown away every year.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I don’t mind if smiles come at my expense, I’m a small price to pay.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “We can choose to make changes, or we can be subject to other changes – mass migration, disease, armed conflict, a greatly diminished quality of life – but there is no future without change. The luxury of choosing which changes we prefer has an expiration date.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I’m not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I’ll be funny in real life. It’s the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “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.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it’s in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “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 Quote: “Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “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?”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious – not like all of the words that had come to mean nothing, but like the last breath of a drowning victim.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Your dad didn’t die, so I won’t be able to explain it to you.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “What if I never stop inventing?”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We’ve never claimed more, and we’ve never had less.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “You can make great meals without meat that are, of course, much more healthy for the same price, but it takes a process of reeducation, just because Americans aren’t familiar with how to cook vegetables anymore.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “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 Quote: “I wanted to protect him, which I was sure I could do, even if I could not protect myself.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “We’ve made science experiments of ourselves and our children.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Changing how we eat will not be enough, on its own, to save the planet, but we cannot save the planet without changing how we eat.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “The Gypsy girl carved love letters into trees, filling the forest with notes for him.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “And you can’t force someone to believe, not even with better and louder and more virtuous arguments, not even with irrefutable evidence.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn’t say...”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?”
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