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Lo so che mi hai chiesto di non cambiare gli sbagli perche hanno un suono buffo, e il buffo e l'unico modo veritiero di raccontare una storia triste.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' but remembers that there are things more important to him than what he is in the mood for at any given moment, and orders something else. Who is the sentimentalist?
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sentimentality
vegan
vegetarian
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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What Jacob really thought: his father was an ignorant, narcissistic, self-righteous pig, too anal-retentive and pussy-whipped to grasp the extreme reaches of his hypocrisy, emotional impotence, and mental infancy. "So we're in agreement, then?" "No." "So we're agreed?" "No." "I'm glad you agree with me." But there were arguments for forgiving him, too. There were. Good ones. Beautiful intentions. Wounds." --
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Time passed, the world exerted itself, and Jacob and Julia began to forget to do things on purpose.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Does it make you sad that we love the kids more than we love each other?" That exact line--those words in that order--had been in the script for months."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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La biodiversita era stata rimpiazziata dall'uniformita genetica, nelle universita i dipartimenti di scienze animali erano diventati dipartimenti di scienze zootecniche, un'attivita economica un tempo dominata dalle donne era ormai passata in mano ai maschi, e pollicoltori esperti erano stati rimpiazzati da dipendenti stipendiati. Non ci fu un colpo di pistola a segnare l'inizio della corsa verso il basso. Il terreno si inclino e tutti scivo..
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foer
j-s-foer
se-niente-importa
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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If I misuse a corporation's logo, I could potentially be put in jail; if a corporation abuses a billion birds, the law will protect not the birds, but the corporation's right to do what it wants. That is what it looks like when you deny animals rights. It's crazy that the idea of animal rights seems crazy to anyone. We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a hunk of wood and extreme to treat an animal like an an..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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In America, millions of dogs and cats euthanized in animal shelters every year become the food for our food (twice as many such animals are euthanized as are adopted).
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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One study found that roughly 4.5 million sea animals are killed as bycatch in longline fishing every year.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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No, no. Absolutely not. We had a talk with the rabbi, and now we're fully in salvage-the-bar-mitzvah mode." "You had a talk? You think talk got us out of Egypt or Entebbe? Uh-uh. Plagues and Uzis. Talk gets you a good place in line for a shower that isn't a shower."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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if I had an answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I hope you never love anything as much as I love you.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Sie war ein Genie der Traurigkeit: Sie badete in Traurigkeit, sie entwirrte die zahlreichen Strange der Traurigkeit, sie kostete alle zarten Nuancen der Traurigkeit aus. Sie war ein Prisma, durch dass die Traurigkeit in ihr undendlich breit gefachertes Spektrum zerlegt werden kontte.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I pulled the book from him. It was wet with tears running down the pages, as if the book itself were crying. He hid his face in his hands. Let me see you cry, I told him. I do not want to hurt you, he said by shaking his head left to right. It hurts me when you do not want to hurt me, I told him. Let me see you cry.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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He conducted interviews with nearly a hundred USDA poultry inspectors from thirty-seven plants. "Every week," he reports, "millions of chickens leaking yellow pus, stained by green feces, contaminated by harmful bacteria, or marred by lung and heart infections, cancerous tumors, or skin conditions are shipped for sale to consumers." Next"
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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If it was your child, do you want your child to suffer three years, three months, three weeks, three hours, three minutes? A turkey chick isn't a human baby, but it suffers. I've never met anyone in the industry -- manager, vet, worker, anyone -- who doubts that they feel pain. So how much suffering is acceptable? That's what's at the bottom of all of this, and what each person has to ask himself. How much suffering will you tolerate for yo..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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As told by Kafka's close friend Max Brod: "Suddenly he began to speak to the fish in their illuminated tanks. 'Now at least I can look at you in peace, I don't eat you anymore.' It was the time he turned strictly vegetarian."
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kafka
vegan
veganism
vegetarian
vegetarianism
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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bc9c6b0
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Chem sil'nee liubish' kogo-to, -- prishel k vyvodu on, -- tem trudnee ob etom skazat'.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Every time I left our apartment to go searching for the lock, I became a little lighter, because I was getting closer to Dad. But I also became a little heavier, because I was getting farther from Mom.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Not in all ways (of course), but the animals you know have power: they have abilities humans lack, could be dangerous, could bring life, mean things that mean things.
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nature
poetry
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so on, reflecting backward to the beginning of time, to the face of God, in whose image we were created. We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered--our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure . . .
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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there's going to come a time when we won't speak for days on end." "There won't." "There will. Every parent thinks it will never happen to them, but it happens to everyone."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Non potevo sapere cosa stava provando, perche non potevo capire il linguaggio dei suoi sentimenti. "Io non sapevo che e New York. In cinese ny e tu. Credevo che voleva dire 'Io amo tu'". E' stato allora che ho notato i poster 'I<3 NY' sulle porte, e gli strofinacci 'I <3 NY' e il contenitore per alimenti 'I <3 NY' sul tavolo della cucina"
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Ci promise che tutto sarebbe andato bene. Anche se ero una bambina sapevo che non sarebbe andato cosi. Ma questo non faceva di mio padre un bugiardo. Faceva di lui mio padre.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I do not love famous nightclubs. They make me feel very cheerless and abandoned. Am I applying that word correctly? Abandoned?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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What about guns with sensors in the handles that could detect if you were angry, and if you were, they wouldn't fire, even if you were a police officer?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Shy is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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Jonathan safran foer |
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You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of
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moving-on-and-letting-go
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Let's say what we mean: animals are bled, skinned, and dismembered while conscious. It happens all the time, and the industry and the government know it.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The next morning I told Mom I couldn't go to school again. She asked what was wrong. I told her, "The same thing that's always wrong." "You're sick?" "I'm sad." "About Dad?" "About everything." She sat down on the bed next to me, even though I knew she was in a hurry. "What's everything?" I started counting on my fingers: "The meat and dairy products in our refrigerator, fistfights, car accidents, Larry--" "Who's Larry?" "The homeless guy i..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time
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kids
life-quotes
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Would I jump or would I burn? I guess I would jump, because then I wouldn't have to feel pain. On the other hand, maybe I would burn, because then I'd at least have a chance to somehow escape, and even if I couldn't, feeling pain is still better than not feeling, isn't it?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I can't live, I've tried and I can't. If that sounds simple, it's simple like a mountain is simple.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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In my dream, all of the collapsed ceilings reformed above us. The fire went back into the bombs, which rose up and into the bellies of planes whose propellers turned backward, like the second hands of the clocks across Dresden, only faster.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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She was incredibly beautiful, with a face like Mom's, which seemed like it was smiling even when she wasn't smiling, and huge boobs.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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That's the difference between heaven and hell! In hell we starve! In heaven we feed each other!
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I'm sure people tell you this constantly, but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary, there would be a picture of you." She cracked up a bit and said, "People never tell me that." "I bet they do." She cracked up a bit more. "They don't." "Then you hang out with the wrong people." "You might be right about that." "Because you're incredibly beautiful."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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It's not even that I trust him not to leave. I know this won't last. I'd rather be me than him. The words are coming so easily. The pages are coming easily. At the end of my dream, Eve put the apple back on the branch. The tree went back into the ground. It became a sapling, which became a seed. God brought together the land and the water, the sky and the water, the water and the water, evening and morning, something and nothing. He..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all. When Dad was tucking me in that night and we were talking about the book, I asked if he could think of a solution to that problem. "Which problem?" "The problem of how relatively insignifica..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families, and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Every time you make a decision about food, Paul pleaded, quoting Berry, "you are farming by proxy."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |