Jonathan Safran Foer quotes - page 2

It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all. (Jonathan Safran Foer)
If nothing matters, there's nothing to save. View quote
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Try to live so that you can always tell the truth. View quote
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I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world. View quote
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I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces. View quote
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations. View quote
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So many visitors came to rub and kiss different parts of him for the fulfillment of their various wishes that his entire body had to be rebronzed every month. He was a changing god, destroyed and recreated by his believers, destroyed and recreated by their belief... Those who prayed came to believe less and less in the god of their creation and more and more in their belief. View quote
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She spent the afternoon staring at their front door. "Waiting for someone?" Yankel asked. "What color is this?" He stood very close to the door, letting the end of his nose touch the peephole. He licked the wood and joked, "It certainly tastes like red." "Yes, it is red, isn't it?" "Seems so." She buried her head in her hands. "But couldn't it be just a bit more red?" View quote
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Accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be... may we live together in unwavering love and good health, amen. View quote
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People don't care enough. They don't get worked up enough. They don't get angry enough. They don't get passionate enough. I'd rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it. View quote
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There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on. (Jonathan Safran Foer)
Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-children's will be. But we learn to live with that love. View quote
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My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met. View quote
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you. View quote
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I'd lost count of the disappointments. View quote
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The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into. View quote
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Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true. View quote
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I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. View quote
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. View quote
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If I'd been someone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent. View quote
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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum. (Jonathan Safran Foer)
I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love. View quote
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us. View quote
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty. View quote
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The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it. View quote
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