We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERPart of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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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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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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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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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Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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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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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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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 laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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