Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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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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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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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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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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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What does it remember like?
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
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