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It's much easier to be cruel than one might think. — Jonathan Safran Foer

My father's face, when he said that, dissolved into a stillness, a sad expression, sadder than human feeling. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Sometimes my hand starts to burn and I am convinced we are writing the same word at the same moment. — Jonathan Safran Foer

That's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It's always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep. — Jonathan Safran Foer

But the point isn't that I want to know everything about you. It's that I don't want anything about you withheld. — Jonathan Safran Foer

What do you think is going on?'
'I feel too much. That's what's going on.'
'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore. — Jonathan Safran Foer

As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Jacob was right when, after Sam's injury, he said it was too much love for happiness. — Jonathan Safran Foer

When you're a dad, there's no one above you. If I don't do something that has to be done, who is going to do it? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Brod's life was a slow realisation that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Tomorrow was over the horizon and it would take an entire day to reach — Jonathan Safran Foer

I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to lose but lost and have to remember — Jonathan Safran Foer

There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Googol?' 'That's a one with one hundred zeroes after it. — Jonathan Safran Foer

He was caught somewhere between his mother's last kiss and the first kiss he would give his child, between the war that was and would be — Jonathan Safran Foer

The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish — Jonathan Safran Foer

While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time.
Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated — Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Did you manufacture any Z's? — Jonathan Safran Foer

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It's better to lose than to never have had. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Is this why you think you are chosen by God, because only you can understand the funnies that you make about yourself? — Jonathan Safran Foer

We were not rich, but there was nothing we wanted. From my bedroom window I watched the world. And I was safe from the world. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It might sound fantastic, but when we bother to look, it's hard to deny that our day-to-day choices shape the world. — Jonathan Safran Foer

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I am willing to be annoying if that's what was necessary. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to. — Jonathan Safran Foer

We made safe places in the apartment where you could go and not exist. — Jonathan Safran Foer

She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that's love. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed. — Jonathan Safran Foer

If nothing matters, there's nothing to save. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Death is the only thing in life that you absolutely have to be aware of as it's happening. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else. — Jonathan Safran Foer

i couldn't speak the language of his feelings — Jonathan Safran Foer

She is deranged," I said, "but so so playful. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It's better to lose something than never to have had — Jonathan Safran Foer

The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening. — Jonathan Safran Foer

War! We go on killing each other to no purpose! It is war waged by humanity against humanity, and it will only end when there's no one left to fight. — Jonathan Safran Foer

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. — Jonathan Safran Foer

She didn't love life. There was no convincing reason to live — Jonathan Safran Foer

They lay in silence, thinking their own thoughts, each trying to know the other's. They were becoming strangers on top of each other. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Thomas! What are you doing!" and I gestured, "I thought this was Nothing," covering myself with one of my daybooks ,and she said, "It's Something! — Jonathan Safran Foer

It's just that sometimes we make things up just to talk — Jonathan Safran Foer

My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art. — Jonathan Safran Foer

That's the difference between heaven and hell! In hell we starve! In heaven we feed each other! — Jonathan Safran Foer

Somewhere in your mind there's a trace from everything you've ever seen. — Joshua Foer

We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Maybe it's true that you can use up all of your tears...It was nice to think about, because what I wanted was to be empty. — Jonathan Safran Foer

People hurt each other. That's what people do. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face. — Joshua Foer

Should he one day share it and be asked how autobiographical it was, he would say, "It's not my life, but it's me. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums. — Franklin Foer

It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I couldn't explain my need to myself, and that's why it was such a beautiful need — Jonathan Safran Foer

When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you. — Jonathan Safran Foer

There is no greater gift than time. — Jonathan Safran Foer

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. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It's possible to make things that aren't just money-makers. Something wonderful for its own sake. — Jonathan Safran Foer

We believed in our grandmother's cooking more fervently than we believed in God. — Jonathan Safran Foer

What's weird," I said, "is that I've never seen you cry." He said, "I cry all the time. — Jonathan Safran Foer

As long as I am thinking, I am alive. — Jonathan Safran Foer

[She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway. — Jonathan Safran Foer

To think," Borges writes, "is to forget. — Joshua Foer

Songs are as sad as the listener. — Jonathan Safran Foer

We are traumatized people. And nothing else has trauma's power to deform the mind and heart. — Jonathan Safran Foer

She said I could have a seat on the couch if I wanted to, but I told her I didn't believe in leather, so I stood. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love. — Jonathan Safran Foer

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to. — Jonathan Safran Foer

There's a Hasidic proverb: 'While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.'" Jacob — Jonathan Safran Foer

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by ... not paying attention? — Joshua Foer

Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing — Jonathan Safran Foer

Learning texts is worth doing not because it's easy but because it's hard. — Joshua Foer

Well, it's nowhere near as good as it could be, but I suppose it's as good as I can make it right now. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss. — Jonathan Safran Foer

In 1930, more than 20% of the American population was employed in agriculture. Today it's less than 2%. — Jonathan Safran Foer

There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I think after you live it's like before you lived. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Our stories are so fundamental to us that it's easy to forget that we choose them. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It's hard to say goodbye to the place you've lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It's a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I can't live, I've tried and I can't. If that sounds simple, it's simple like a mountain is simple. — Jonathan Safran Foer

What's it about? she asked.
It's about love.
She laughed. They're all about love. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It's the most familial-based societies where the sense of obligation is strongest, that breed the worst nepotism and cronyism. — Franklin Foer

Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff. — Jonathan Safran Foer