People with nothing to declare carry the most.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIn my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
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He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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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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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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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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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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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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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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