The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt 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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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 so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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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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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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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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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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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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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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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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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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