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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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
Alive
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Thinking
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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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He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the leaves that September. Some would fall with the trees generations later.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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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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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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Raising your kids vegetarian is a great way to encourage them to do the opposite of what you want! But the goal is not to have them have the same values that I have. It's to have them act on their values.
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I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.
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There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.
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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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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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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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She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.
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Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.
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To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.
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The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.
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Years were passing through the spaces between moments.
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We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don't care if we're lying. I am a bad person. I don't care. I don't care what you are.
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