Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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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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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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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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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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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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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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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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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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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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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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