I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERFeathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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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 think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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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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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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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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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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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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Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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