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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
Novelist
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Washington
District of Columbia
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My test for writing is always, is this fun or does it feel like a job? Is it moving me? Or am I just fulfilling my own expectations - or even worse, somebody else's?
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I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything
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I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember
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Sometimes one simply wants to disappear.
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I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.
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...people with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food every time you eat it because you're recycling all those calories through it. I know a lot of people who came to this issue not through animal welfare but through wastefulness.
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We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?
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