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Jonathan Safran Foer has 526 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop…
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly…
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SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of…
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely…
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Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why…
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Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it…
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Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one…
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound…
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't…
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Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy.…
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I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my…
— Brendan Behan
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It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family…
— Gabrielle Hamilton
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My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children…
— Ezra Cornell
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I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor…
— Bram Fischer
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There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped…
— Sean Young
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These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that…
— Alice Sebold
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It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed,…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said…
— Brendan Behan
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When I came back to Dublin I was court marshaled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I…
— Brendan Behan
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_ if you don't appreciate my existence, you deserve my absence!
— Jhunna Rebusora
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