I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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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.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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We spent our lives making livings.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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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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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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