I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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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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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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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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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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