She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIronically, 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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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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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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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