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Jonathan Safran Foer Inspirational Quotes (288)

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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.
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I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?
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Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.
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It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.
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I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that they learn about it from my wife and me, in a deliberate and safe way. But it's hard to imagine ever feeling ready to broach the subject without some impetus.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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What does it remember like?
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of.
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Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.
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And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I know I won't be able to send, no matter how hard I try and how much I want to. How did that boy making love behind that shed become this man writing this letter at this table?
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I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything
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...he enclosed pieces of string that he used to measure out his body--his head, thigh, forearm, finger, neck, everything. He wanted me to sleep with them under my pillow. He said that when he came back, we would remeasure his body against the string as proof that he hadn't changed.
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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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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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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.
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She brushed her eyelashes against his chest.
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None of the ways people were talking about September 11 felt right to me. I don't buy into the way George W. Bush talks about it. I don't buy into the way the 9/11 commission talks about it. It isn't that I don't believe them. It's just that they're not the tellings for me.
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