My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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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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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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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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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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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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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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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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