I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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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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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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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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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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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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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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