It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIf we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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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.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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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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Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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