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Jonathan Safran Foer Inspirational Quotes (288)

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I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me.
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Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.
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Why I'm not where you are ...
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He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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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.
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I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not even really an animal person, or an environmentalist. I did the best I could with this, but it's not who I am.
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I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits.
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I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.
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I've never particularly liked bankers.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me.
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The dissolution of a family, global crisis creates the massive fracture, not only in the Middle East but between America and Israel, between Europe and Israel, between American Jews and Israeli Jews. The distances seem to be widening wherever you look.
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Raising your kids vegetarian is a great way to encourage them to do the opposite of what you want! But the goal is not to have them have the same values that I have. It's to have them act on their values.
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It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.
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Succotash my Balzac, dipshiitake.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.
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I'm deeply curious about Jewish things. I've toyed around with the idea of going to rabbinical school.
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We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?
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Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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Why didn't he say goodbye? I gave myself a bruise. Why didn't he say 'I love you'?
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Only humans can cry tears.
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