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Only humans can cry tears.

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
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Tears
Humans

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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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I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me.
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I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.
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She brushed her eyelashes against his chest.
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That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.
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[She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.
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The word vegetarian, I think, does a disservice because there are a lot of people who care but maybe don't care, or can't care in an ultimate way. If you think about environmentalism, nobody would ask, Are you an environmentalist or not? The question doesn't make any sense.
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