Only humans can cry tears.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERLet love write on you for awhile.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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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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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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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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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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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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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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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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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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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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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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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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