We spent our lives making livings. Jonathan Safran Foer More Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer More Quotes From Jonathan Safran Foer A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living. Jonathan Safran Foer remembranceluckknowing My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met. Jonathan Safran Foer life-storymetsstories In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that? Jonathan Safran Foer shadowmorningmemories If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand. Jonathan Safran Foer misunderstoodifs Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Jonathan Safran Foer holesmadememories 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. Jonathan Safran Foer fruitgratitudetree 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 it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does. Jonathan Safran Foer walllovefall 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. Jonathan Safran Foer going-awayhatefeelings Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it. Jonathan Safran Foer crueltyabilityunderstanding Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness? Jonathan Safran Foer puppydogdoe Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more. Jonathan Safran Foer my-childrenmatterchildren 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. Jonathan Safran Foer valentinethanksgivingkings 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. Jonathan Safran Foer eyedreammean 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. Jonathan Safran Foer eyebirdlong 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. Jonathan Safran Foer darkmemoriesscience Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Jonathan Safran Foer shynessturnswant 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. Jonathan Safran Foer partydreamchildren 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 Foer airanimalhands My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to Jonathan Safran Foer wifechildrenreality Let love write on you for awhile. Jonathan Safran Foer writing
