I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
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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Let love write on you for awhile.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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