Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERMy life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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There 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.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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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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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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