The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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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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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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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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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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