As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEROnce you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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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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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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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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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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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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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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