Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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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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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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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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