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Words never mean what we want them to mean.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
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If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.
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Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.
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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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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.
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I wanted to hit him. I wanted to hold him. I wanted to shout myself into his ear.
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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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I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: Do you like me?
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How did her life live itself without her.
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The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
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Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.
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The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.
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We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
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Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.
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I am willing to be annoying if that's what was necessary.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second
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She saw through the shell of me into the center of me
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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