Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foeris an American novelist. He is best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and for his non-fiction work Eating Animals. He teaches creative writing at New York University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth21 February 1977
CountryUnited States of America
voiceless tests matter
However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know that there is something that matters in a deep way about the lives we create for the living beings most within our power. Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless--it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.
annoying willing ifs
I am willing to be annoying if that's what was necessary.
morning tired wife
I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says I can't bake any more bread.
yesterday turns wanted
Yesterday I wanted to turn inside out.
beautiful world relief
How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.
trying patient moron
Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.
voice broken handsome
His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.
love-is want
That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.
ends loses
In the end, everyone loses everyone.
feels everything-is-illuminated
To feel alone is to be alone.
suffering fool doe
The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.
feelings language speak
i couldn't speak the language of his feelings
shells saws
She saw through the shell of me into the center of me
flames felt
We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames