Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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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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Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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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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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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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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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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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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