Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEROnly humans can cry tears.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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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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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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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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We spent our lives making livings.
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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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