Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERBut I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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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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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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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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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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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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Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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