She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERHe 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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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What does it remember like?
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
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I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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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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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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