We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThere are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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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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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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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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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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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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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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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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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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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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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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