It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIn my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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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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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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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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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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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
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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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