I was more alone than if I had been alone.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERYou can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.
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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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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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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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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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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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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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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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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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