I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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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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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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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.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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