The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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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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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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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.
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