In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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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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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 believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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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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