There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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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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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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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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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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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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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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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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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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