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I think after you live it's like before you lived.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
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If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.
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Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.
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I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.
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I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me.
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I could tell that Mom was dreaming, but I didn't want to know what she was dreaming about, because I had enough of my own nightmares, and if she had been dreaming something happy, I would have been angry at her for dreaming something happy.
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Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?
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I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say.
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?
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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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