The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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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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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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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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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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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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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
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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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This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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