I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERBeing with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
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What does it remember like?
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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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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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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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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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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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