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Cutting down that tree was my last war!" I asked him who won, which I thought was a nice question, because it would let him say that he won, and feel proud. He said, "The ax won! It's always that way!"
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right palm, what can I say, it hasn't made life wonderful, it's made life possible, when I rub my hands against each other in the middle of winter I am warming myself with the friction of YES and NO, when I clap my hands I am showing my appreciation through the uniting and parting of YES and NO, I signify "book" by peeling open my clapped hands, ever..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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He wrote, You're being crazy. You're going to catch a cold. I already have a cold. You are going to catch a colder.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I know a lot about birds and bees, but I don't know very much about the birds and the bees.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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All told, farmed animals in the United States produce 130 times as much waste as the human population --
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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How much currency would a Negro homosexual accountant receive?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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In Ukraine one cup of coffee is five dollars!
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The twins hid their bodies under their father's tallis, like ghosts. The horse at the bottom of the river, shrouded by the sunken night sky, closed its heavy eyes. The prehistoric ant in Yankel's ring, which had lain motionless in the honey-colored amber since long before Noah hammered the first plank, hid its head between its many legs, in shame.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I like to see people reunited, maybe that's a silly thing, but what can I say, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone, I sit on the side with a coffee and write in my daybook,
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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we laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I understand, now, the tragedy of my childhood. It wasn't the bombing. It was that I never once liked a photograph of myself. I couldn't.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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It's so cold in Yukatia, which is in Siberia, that breath instantly freezes with a crackling noise that they call the whispering of the stars. On extremely cold days, the towns are covered in a fog caused by the breath of humans and animals.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Oskar: I'm God! Thomas: You're an atheist. Oskar: I don't exist!
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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my thinking, the cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Even Alf is not humorous at times.
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humor
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at the dawn of July, Ukraine was to celebrate the first birthday of its ultramodern constitution, which makes us feel very nationalistic, and so many people would be on vacation in foreign places.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I looked for her all day but didn't see her, not in the yard, not through a window, I promised myself I would stay until I found her, but as night began to come in, I knew I had to go home, I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Our methodologies . . . have come more and more to resemble the methodology of mining. . . . This is sufficiently clear to many of us. What is not sufficiently clear, perhaps to any of us, is the extent of our complicity, as individuals and especially as individual consumers, in the behavior of the corporations. . . . Most people . . . have given proxies to the corporations to produce and provide all of their food.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I am blind. I am supposed to be retarded.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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We would have been safe.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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He thought cucumbers were good enough, but pickles were delicious--so absolutely delicious, in fact, that he questioned whether they were, indeed, made from cucumbers, which were only good enough.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.
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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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L'unica cosa piu dolorosa dell'essere obliatori attivi e essere rammentatori inerti.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Menachem's problem was this: he had more money than there were things to buy. Menachem's solution was this: rather than buy more things, he would continue to buy the things he already owned,
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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In my dream, spring came after summer, came after fall, came after winter, came after spring.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But that's not the question. Is it more important than sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That's the question.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Vegetarians are at best kindly but unrealistic. At worst they are delusional sentimentalists.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Mozhno prostit' ukhod, no kak prostit' vozvrashchenie?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Mark had said it wasn't too late in life for happiness. When, in Julia's life, would it be late enough for honesty? It was amazing how little changed as everything changed. The conversation was continually expanding, but it was no longer clear what they were talking about.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I yearned to press my ear to the door so that I could at minimum hear. But I knew that my side was on the outside with the hero. Part of me hated this, and part of me was grateful, because once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I am so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Jews have become the smartest weakest people in the history of the world. Look, I'm not always right. I realize that. But I'm always strong. And if our history has taught us anything, it's that it's more important to be strong than right. Or good, for that matter. I would rather be alive and wrong and evil. I don't need Bishop Wears-a-Tutu, or that hydrocephalic peanut farmer president, or the backseat-driving pseudo-sociologist eunichs fro..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Canary light of oil lamps
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Tomorrow was over the horizon and it would take an entire day to reach
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Children were allowed to lie down on the park as it was being moved. This was considered a concession, although no one knew why a concession was necessary, or why it was to children that this concession must be made. The biggest fireworks show in history lit the skies of New York City that night, and the Philarmonic played its heart out. The children of New York lay on their backs, body to body, filling every inch of the park, as if it had ..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Why do we do that? Why are the painful things always electromagnets?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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What do you think is going on?' 'I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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He knew that 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.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Ze wil weten of ik van haar hou, dat is eigenlijk het enige wat de ene mens van de ander wil, het gaat niet om de liefde op zich, maar om het idee dat de liefde er is, zoiets als nieuwe batterijen in een zaklantaarn in de noodkist in de gangkast,
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Ik dacht, het is jammer dat we moeten leven, maar het is doodzonde dat we maar een leven krijgen, want als ik twee levens had gehad, had ik er eentje met haar doorgebracht. Dan was ik bij haar in de flat blijven wonen,
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Verlegenheid is als je je afkeert van iets wat je wilt. Schaamte is als je je afkeert van iets wat je niet wilt.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The Uprighters called them names and promised them an eternity of agony in the next world for their eagerness to be comfortable in this one. But like Shmul S, the intestine-tied milkman, the Slouchers couldn't give a shit.
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