We spent our lives making livings.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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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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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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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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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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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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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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