We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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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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We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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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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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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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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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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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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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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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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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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We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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