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Jonathan Safran  Quotes
I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

—Jonathan Safran

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Life
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God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, ‘God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created them.” God is the original plagiarizer. With a lack of reasonable sources from...

—Jonathan Safran

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Everything-Is-IlluminatedJonathan-Safran-FoerPlagiarism
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We spent our lives making livings.

—Jonathan Safran

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LifeWork
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I wanted to cry but I didn’t, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.

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Sad
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.

—Jonathan Safran

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Moment
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I don’t want to die.” That is what death is like. It doesn’t matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn’t matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what...

—Jonathan Safran

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DeathDeath-And-DyingWar
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

—Jonathan Safran

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DesperateLifeLosing
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.

—Jonathan Safran

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HighsLifeLows
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Songs are as sad as the listener.

—Jonathan Safran

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MusicPerception
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SADNESS OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]; Sadness of having options;...

—Jonathan Safran

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Sadness
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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.

—Jonathan Safran

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…and when is enough proof enough?

—Jonathan Safran

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EvidenceFaithProof
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He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

—Jonathan Safran

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FatherLove
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She died in my arms, saying, “I don’t want to die.” That is what death is like. It doesn’t matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn’t matter how good the weapons are. I...

—Jonathan Safran

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DeathWar
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Mother is a humble woman. Very, very humble. She toils at a small café one hour distance from our home. She presents food and drink to customers there, and says to me, “I mount the...

—Jonathan Safran

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Family
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Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.

—Jonathan Safran

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FoodVegetarianism
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I once went to report on a village in Russia, a community of artists who were forced to flee the cities! I’d heard that paintings hung everywhere! I heard you couldn’t see the walls through...

—Jonathan Safran

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I brought the birdcages to the windows.I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages.I poured the fish down the drain.I took the dogs and cats downstairs and removed their collars.I released the insects onto the...

—Jonathan Safran

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Loneliness
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I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am...

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LifeSadness
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Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

—Jonathan Safran

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Knowledge
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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...

—Jonathan Safran

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Fuck You!’ [Oskar said] ‘Exuse me!’ [His mom said] ‘Sorry. I mean, screw you.’ ‘You need a time-out!’ ‘I need a mausoleum!

—Jonathan Safran

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…people with nothing to declare carry the most.

—Jonathan Safran

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BurdensCarryLife
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Darling,You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am writing you this letter, or what this letter is supposed to be about,...

—Jonathan Safran

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If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give...

—Jonathan Safran

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LifeLove
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There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we’re alive.

—Jonathan Safran

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InspirationalLifeTruth
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand…… But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate...

—Jonathan Safran

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Music
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When she woke up crying for one of her nightmares, the Kolker would stay with her, brush her hair with his hands, collect her tears in thimbles for her to drink the next morning (The...

—Jonathan Safran

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LoveNightmaresSadness
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…only someone who’d never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them….

—Jonathan Safran

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AnimalsHumor
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second

—Jonathan Safran

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Fact
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(What are your ghosts like?)(They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.)(This is also where my ghosts reside.)(You have ghosts?)(Of course I have ghosts.)(But you are a child.)(I am not a child.)(But...

—Jonathan Safran

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Love
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That is what death is like. It doesn’t matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn’t matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never...

—Jonathan Safran

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DeathSoldiersWar
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And how can you say I love you to someone you love?I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you,...

—Jonathan Safran

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FamilyLove
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Wszyscy przeczuwamy niebezpieczeństwo. Nasze jedzenie powstaje kosztem ogromnego cierpienia.Gdy ktoś proponuje nam obejrzenie filmu o produkcji mięsa, spodziewamy się horroru. Możliwe, że wiemy więcej, niż nam się wydaje. Wolimy jednak odsuwać od siebie tę świadomość....

—Jonathan Safran

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Eating-AnimalsFood
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He looked so much like me, I could tell that he saw it, too, we shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? DO we all make the...

—Jonathan Safran

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ImpostersLook-AlikeMistakes
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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...

—Jonathan Safran

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EthicsFactory-FarmingNonfiction
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

—Jonathan Safran

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HappinessLife
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Why do beautiful songs make you sad?’ ‘Because they aren’t true.’ ‘Never?’ ‘Nothing is beautiful and true.

—Jonathan Safran

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BeautyMusicSadness
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Today, it isn’t unusual for meat to travel almost halfway around the globe to reach your supermarket. The average distance our meat travels hovers arounf fifteen hundred miles.

—Jonathan Safran

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AnimalsFood-For-ThoughtMeat
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She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from...

—Jonathan Safran

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CultureEnglishSlang
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Thomas! What are you doing!” and I gestured, “I thought this was Nothing,” covering myself with one of my daybooks ,and she said, “It’s Something!

—Jonathan Safran

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NothingSometingUndressing
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The dream thatwe are our fathers. I walked to the Brod,41without knowing why, and looked intomy reflection in the water. I couldn’t lookaway. What was the image that pulled mein after it? What was it...

—Jonathan Safran

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Father
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In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go...

—Jonathan Safran

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Love
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?

—Jonathan Safran

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HappinessPhilosophy
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He spent the next weeks blocking scenes of the bureaucrat fucking his wife. On the floor with cooking ingredients. Standing, with socks still on. In the grass of the yard of their new and immense...

—Jonathan Safran

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AffairsHumorMarriage
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She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

—Jonathan Safran

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SadSadness
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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?

—Jonathan Safran

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AnimalsChickenFactory-Farms
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I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything.

—Jonathan Safran

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EmptinessLonging
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Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!

—Jonathan Safran

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I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.

—Jonathan Safran

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DeathJonathan-Safran-Foer
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