It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEROf 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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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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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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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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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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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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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