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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERMy point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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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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He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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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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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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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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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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