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How did her life live itself without her.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
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She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.
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Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.
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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 saw through the shell of me into the center of me
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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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He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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I am willing to be annoying if that's what was necessary.
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But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.
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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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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.
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Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes
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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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I think it's a greater risk not to write about 9\11. If you're in my position - a New Yorker who felt the event very deeply and a writer who wants to write about things he feels deeply about - I think it's risky to avoid what's right in front of you.
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Why didn't he say goodbye? I gave myself a bruise. Why didn't he say 'I love you'?
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I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it helps to play a good beat
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Only humans can cry tears.
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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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Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.
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