Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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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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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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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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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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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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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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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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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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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.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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