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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.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Different Help Myself Remember Time
I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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Hard Key Myself Trust Try
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Happiness Myself Thinking Time
I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Believe Challenge Faith God Myself
Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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Born Death Fire Live Ourselves Rise Smoking
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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Hard Ideas Important Remember Writing
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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Life Love Necessary Possible Yourself
Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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Enough Expression One Liner Sadness Word
Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Hear Return Time Yourself
I never confused what I had with what I was.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Confusion Myself
Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Existence Love Myself Try
Let love write on you for awhile.
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Love Sex Writing Yourself
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Ability Choice Cruelty Ignorance Understand
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Believe Cook God
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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Appreciation Division Genius Infinte Sadness Separate

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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