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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

Jonathan Safran Foer
Dog, Doe, Puppy

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
Hate, Feelings, Going Away
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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 make that choice.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Children, Reality, Wife

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
Animal, Air, Hands

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
Thanksgiving, Kings, Valentine
"Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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
Knowing, Remembrance, Luck
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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
Dream, Mean, Eye
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Optimistic, Thinking, Pessimistic
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

What does it remember like?

Jonathan Safran Foer
Doe, Remember

It's so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won't be awake for another five hours, but I can't help feeling that we're sharing this clear and beautiful morning.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Beautiful, Morning, Air
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.305, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?

Jonathan Safran Foer
Why Not, Happened
"Here We Aren't, So Quickly". www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?

Jonathan Safran Foer
Making Love, Together, Doe
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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 Foer
Happiness, Laughter, Air
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In the end, everyone loses everyone.

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

I spent my life learning to feel less.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Life Learning, Feels, Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Compromise, Almost There, Ifs
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

People hurt each other. That's what people do.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Hurt, People

Try to live so that you can always tell the truth.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Trying, Telling The Truth

People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

Jonathan Safran Foer
People, Feelings, Littles
"Jonathan Safran Foer: technology is diminishing us". www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2016.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.

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

We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Imposter, Recognizing
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Years were passing through the spaces between moments.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Years, Space, Moments
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nothing is beautiful and true.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Beautiful
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, April 1, 2005.

I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

Jonathan Safran Foer
Grandfather, Alex, Good Person

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