1,008 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

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    And by midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else.

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    And here I am, instead of there. I’m sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I know I won’t be able to send, no matter how hard I try and how much I want to. How did that boy making love behind that shed become this man writing this letter at this table?

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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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    Writing’s funny, it’s like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you’ve written.

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    And there was shame in being human: the shame of knowing that twenty of the roughly thirty-five classified species of sea horse worldwide are threatened with extinction because they are killed “unintentionally” in seafood production.

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    These little daily choices that we’re so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

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    I couldn’t explain to her that I missed him more, more than she or anyone else missed him, because I could’t tell her about what happened with the phone. That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

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