We 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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWhat does it remember like?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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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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The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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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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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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