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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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Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream…
— Sheridan Morley
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There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what…
— George Orwell
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The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail…
— Vance Packard
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We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, 'I have a problem with…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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She's one of those third year girls who gripe my liver... You know, American college kids. They come over here to take…
— Gene Kelly
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Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."
— Robert Breault
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I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the…
— Frances Trollope
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For every grand and finely worded statement by the CEO, the brand is also defined by derisory consumer comments overheard in a…
— Scott Bedbury
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All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?
— William S. Burroughs
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Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What…
— John Lanchester
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Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the…
— Ann Beattie
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Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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