Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERPeople with nothing to declare carry the most.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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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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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
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We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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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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Only humans can cry tears.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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