Songs are as sad as the listener.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe 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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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I 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.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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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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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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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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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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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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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.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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