Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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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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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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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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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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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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