The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI 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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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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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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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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
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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