Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Thanksgiving 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.
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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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What does it remember like?
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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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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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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