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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
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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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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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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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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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