The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERA few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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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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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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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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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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