Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERHighs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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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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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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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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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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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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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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