Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes - Page 3

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• Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

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  Mean, Fire, Different

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was

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  Way

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.

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  Choices, World, Changed

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• We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against.

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  Want, Kind, Persons

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.241, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...and when is enough proof enough?

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  Enough, Proof

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For how long could we fail until we surrendered?

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  Long, Failing

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.

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  Thinking, Inspire, Changed

  "Quitting Meat: A Process Of Change" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• [She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway.

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  Fiction

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You have to do something bad to do something good.

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  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.324, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

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  Matter, Nothing Matters, Eating Animals

  "Everything Is Illuminated". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, April 16, 2002.

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• Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

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  Our Love, Affliction, Cures

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.

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  Trying, Way, Easy

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• If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

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  Hunting, Archery, Cameras

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• Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

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  Fiction, Reader, Feels

  “Jonathan Safran Foer” by Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

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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 something you have earned.

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  Hate, Feelings, Going Away

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.

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  Children, Matter, My Children

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• Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

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  Memories, Dark, Science

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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• I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

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  Book, Want, Blank

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• Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.

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  Animal, Air, Hands

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• My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

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  Stories, Mets, Life Story

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.

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  Gratitude, Tree, Fruit

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2010.

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• Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

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  Thanksgiving, Kings, Valentine

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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• Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.

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  Dream, Mean, Eye

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth, feel nostalgia, scrub stains, have religions and political parties and laws, wear keepsakes, apologize years after an offense, whisper, fear themselves, interpret dreams, hide their genitalia, shave, bury time capsules, and can choose not to eat something for reasons of conscience. The justifications for eating animals and for not eating them are often identical: we are not them.

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  Dream, Children, Party

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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• Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms.

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  Eye, Long, Bird

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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