The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThanksgiving 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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
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This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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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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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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