I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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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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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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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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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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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 felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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