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Songs are as sad as the listener.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
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Washington
District of Columbia
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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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Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
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Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.
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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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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second
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Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?
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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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...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope.
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What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the sighs, screams, and groans — small and large, crude and multifaceted — that concern us. The word defines our gaze even more than what we are looking at.
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The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.
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Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.
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But I dig Negroes. I dig them all the way.
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Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don't cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears - you know, it's a horrible thing.
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I am willing to be annoying if that's what was necessary.
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There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.
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