If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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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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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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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 am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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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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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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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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