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Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Food
Values
History
Stories

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If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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But I dig Negroes. I dig them all the way.
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We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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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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There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.
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People hurt each other. That's what people do.
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.
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I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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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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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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