It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEREverything 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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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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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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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What does it remember like?
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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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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