We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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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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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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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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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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