Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWhat does it remember like?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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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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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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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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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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