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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERAlso, 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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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What does it remember like?
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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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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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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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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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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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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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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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