Jonathan Safran Foer quotes - page 6

She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. (Jonathan Safran Foer)
Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now. View quote
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It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about "Eleanor Rigby.” It's true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong? View quote
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When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you. View quote
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Sadness of love without release. View quote
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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it. View quote
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I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to. View quote
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I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. View quote
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The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape. View quote
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... the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river. View quote
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To feel alone is to be alone. (Jonathan Safran Foer)
I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a picture of you. View quote
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories. View quote
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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can. View quote
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It's much easier to be cruel than one might think. View quote
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How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents. View quote
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I'd rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it. View quote
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We spent our lives making livings. View quote
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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. (Jonathan Safran Foer)
I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots. View quote
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... Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]... View quote
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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter? View quote
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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. View quote
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