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“We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Heart #Technology #Worry
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“Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Animal #Culture #Matter
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“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Sad #Lost Love #Grief
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“Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Desire #World #Stuff
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“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Happiness #Sad #Believe
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“Farmers since the beginning of time have been feeding the world very successfully without systematically abusing animals or destroying the environment. But we're breeding food that is less safe for us, it tastes much worse than it ever has in history, and it's wreaking havoc on the environment in a way that it never did in history before. All in the interest of it being cheap.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Animal #World #Safe
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“I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Love #Mean #Way
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“You can make great meals without meat that are, of course, much more healthy for the same price, but it takes a process of reeducation, just because Americans aren't familiar with how to cook vegetables anymore.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Vegetables #Healthy #Meat
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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 of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Animal #Numbers #Suffering
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“I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not even really an animal person, or an environmentalist. I did the best I could with this, but it's not who I am.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Animal #Who I Am #Novelists
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“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Life #I Hate You #Weight
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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 could explain why. Little, nothing touches, my fingers against his shoulder, the outsides of our thighs touching as we squeeled together on the bus. I couldnt explain it, but I needed it. Sometimes I imagined stiching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love?”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Hands #Making Love #Touching
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“We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Ignorance #Opportunity #Animal
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“There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#People #Understanding #Understanding Yourself
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“She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#I Hate You #Love Is #Emergencies
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“Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
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“Songs are as sad as the listener.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Music #Song #Sadness
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“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Life #Regret #Future
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“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Hurt #Buried #Hurt Me
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“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#One Day #Someone You Love
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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.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Hunting #Archery #Cameras
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“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Family #Hate #Mean
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“Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Quality #Meat #Eating
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“Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#People #Appreciate #World
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“Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Food #Safety #Responsible
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“We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to arise between Nothing and Something, in the morning the Nothing vase cast a Something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that, at night the Nothing light spilled from the guest room spilled under the Nothing door and stained the Something hallway, there's nothing to say.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Morning #Memories #Night
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“She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Sadness #Hands #Laughing
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“Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Matter #Lows #Be Good
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“Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#People #Might #Sometimes
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“With writing, we have second chances.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
#Writing #Second Chance #Chance
