I never confused what I had with what I was.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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We spent our lives making livings.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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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.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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Only humans can cry tears.
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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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?
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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