I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIn truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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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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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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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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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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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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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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