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Jonathan Safran Foer176 quotes“Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.”
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Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer 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!
Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer 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.
Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer 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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Louis XIVLouis XIV To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.
Adam ClarkeAdam Clarke It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.
John BunyanJohn Bunyan Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer I’ve always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.
Lata MangeshkarLata Mangeshkar I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I’ve been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.
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