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What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them.

What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That's the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying...We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a block of wood.

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Block, Animal, Meat Industry

i couldn't speak the language of his feelings

Jonathan Safran Foer
Feelings, Language, Speak
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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.

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Suffering, Doe, Fool
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

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Invention, Ends, Loses
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Sometimes one simply wants to disappear.

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Want, Sometimes, Disappear
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be.

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Confusing, Experts, Should
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.

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Hoarding, Release, Felt
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

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Rooms, Share, Conversation
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.278, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Book, Blank
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Trying, Patient, Moron

It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.

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Song, Sad Music, Made
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

To feel alone is to be alone.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Feels, Everything Is Illuminated

I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.

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Thinking
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.224, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they? Where were they going? What were they looking for? I wanted to hear their heartbeats, and I wanted them to hear mine.

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Dark, People, Heartbeat

[…] but I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.

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Believe, Simple, I Believe
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.324, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.

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Imagine, Happened, Universe
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?

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Powerful, Intelligent, One Day
"Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, October 31, 2009.

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, but I am writing it nonetheless, because I love you very much and trust that you have some good purpose for having me write this letter. I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love. Your father

Jonathan Safran Foer
Father, Love You, Writing

It is better to lose than never to have had.

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Loses
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.310, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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Sad, Beautiful, Song
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.

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Hurt, Feelings, Doe
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

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Meat, Vegetarian, Casts
"Quitting Meat: A Process Of Change" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

Isn't it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the Earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be room to bury anyone anymore?

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Numbers, People, One Day
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

As for the bracelet Mom wore to the funeral, what I did was I converted Dad’s last voice message into Morse code, and I used sky-blue beads for silence, maroon beads for breaks between letters, violet beads for breaks between words, and long and short pieces of string between the beads for long and short beeps, which are actually called blips, I think, or something. Dad would have known.

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Mom, Dad, Thinking
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Jonathan Safran Foer
Children, Parent, Knowledgeable
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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