It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEROnly humans can cry tears.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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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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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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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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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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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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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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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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