I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERBut come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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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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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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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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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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We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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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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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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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 want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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