Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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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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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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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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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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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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