If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEREvery moment before this one depends on this one.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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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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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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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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