Doe Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

24 Doe quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

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Foer’s inventive language and social consciousness surface in these twenty‑four reflections on a Doe. The pieces blend humor, melancholy, and a keen eye for the everyday, echoing the tone of his longer narratives.

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What does it remember like?

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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

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The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.

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Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

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Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

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...there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the…

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It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered,…

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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…

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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.

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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is…

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Well, let me leave it at this: if God does exist, He would have a great deal be sad about. And if…

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The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and…

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My test for writing is always, is this fun or does it feel like a job? Is it moving me? Or am…

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This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we…

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The word vegetarian, I think, does a disservice because there are a lot of people who care but maybe don't care, or…

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I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights…

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My impression is that staying together as a couple does not correspond to the challenges themselves, but whether the very idea of…

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There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than…

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I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in…

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I'm a vegetarian. You're a what? I don't eat meat. How can you not eat meat? I just don't. He says he…

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Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering…

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We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be…

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I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never…

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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does…

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If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

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“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about it at…

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“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish”

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“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.”

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“Food is not so much a symbol of freedom as the first requirement of freedom. We eat foods that are native to America on…

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“Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I’ve yet to find a credible…

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