The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEREvery moment before this one depends on this one.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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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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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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He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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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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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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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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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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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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