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 FOERIf we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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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.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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