Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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What does it remember like?
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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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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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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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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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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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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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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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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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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