He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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We spent our lives making livings.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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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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