The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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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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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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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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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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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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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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