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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 it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to

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
Love, Wall, Fall
"Everything Is Illuminated". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2002.

Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Football, Running, Wall
Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.112, Penguin UK

Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Wall, Home, Anna
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Wall, Bricks, Brick Wall
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Wall, Character, Reflection

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