Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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What does it remember like?
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With writing, we have second chances.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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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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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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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 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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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.
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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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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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