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It's much easier to be cruel than one might think.
— 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
She smiled a smile to bring a thousand ships to harbor.
— 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 can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
— 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
Do not have any other loves before me in your heart. Do not take my name in vain. Do not kill me. Observe me, and keep me holy.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
With writing, we have second chances.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?
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Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I've never particularly liked bankers.
— 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
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
She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I wanted to pull the thread, unravel the scarf of my silence and start again from the beginning.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Writing is like pulling teeth out of your penis.
— 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
Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Even if Lady Macbeth could have removed that damn spot, wouldn't her hands have been red from all of the scrubbing?
— Jonathan Safran Foer
It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Sadness of feeling the need to create beautiful things;
— Jonathan Safran Foer
It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
— 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
The gift is for you ... The surprise is for me.
— 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
At any given time, there are forty times in the world.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
All told, farmed animals in the United States produce 130 times as much waste as the human population -
— Jonathan Safran Foer
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Sometimes I can feel my bones straining
— Jonathan Safran Foer
We made safe places in the apartment where you could go and not exist.
— 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
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
— 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 can't even say 'hair pie,' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits ...
— Jonathan Safran Foer
i couldn't speak the language of his feelings
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I was more alone than if I had been alone.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
She is deranged," I said, "but so so playful.
— 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
You could bury people one hundred floors down, and a whole dead world could be underneath the living one.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
He was sculpting me. He was trying to make me so he could fall in love with me ..
— 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
Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!
— Jonathan Safran Foer
She didn't love life. There was no convincing reason to live
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Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.
— 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
It's possible to make things that aren't just money-makers. Something wonderful for its own sake.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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— Jonathan Safran Foer
Songs are as sad as the listener.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
There is no greater gift than time.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
It felt as if an only life should be better than good enough, but how many efforts for more have ended with having nothing?
— Jonathan Safran Foer
How, after all, can one miss something one has never known?
— Jonathan Safran Foer
She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.
— 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
I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I put my hands into the pockets of all his jackets
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.
— 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
The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.
— 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
Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Mom told me, "It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don't you think?" I told her, "It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone.
— 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
That really changed me, when I realized that an excruciating life is worse than an excruciating death.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
There's a Hasidic proverb: 'While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.'" Jacob
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I did not feel that he owed it to me. And I did not feel like I owed it to him. We owed it to each other, which is something different.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
It was not the Jew, of course, who invented the love poem, but the other way around.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I trust that you have a good purpose for your ignorance
— 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
Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
You are a schmuck," I informed the hero. "You're not using the word correctly," he said. "Yes I am," I said.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
The world is a big place," he said, "but so is the inside of an apartment!
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I am very simple to enchant.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second
— Jonathan Safran Foer
My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I'm possibly possible.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
We believed in our grandmother's cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I don't speak," he wrote, "I'm sorry.
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Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
It goes and keeps going.
— Jonathan Safran Foer