"She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching……" — Jonathan Safran Foer
"She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life."
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526 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We…
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the…
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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;…
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are…
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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…
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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…
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Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the…
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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…
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that…
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Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or…
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I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me…
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
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I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.
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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state…
— Andre Breton
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
— Taylor Caldwell
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People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what…
— George Carlin
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I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything.…
— Jim Carrey
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That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my…
— Charlie Chaplin
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'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.
— Kirstie Alley
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When I am not desperate, I am worthless.
— Ivo Andric
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If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang…
— Frank Zappa
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