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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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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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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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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 felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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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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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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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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He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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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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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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