If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI never confused what I had with what I was.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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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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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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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’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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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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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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