I was more alone than if I had been alone.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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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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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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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 felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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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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We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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