She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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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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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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