It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Life overflows with imperfections, but some matter more than others” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a person whose life was so good there was no story to tell about it.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we only have one life” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The wanting, the needing, the distance, the disappointment: growing, knowing, committing, aging beside another. Alone, one can live perfectly. But not a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Now that I'm thinking about it," I told Gerald, "they could make an incredibly long limousine that had it's back seat at… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I’m here, Dr. Fein, because it upsets my mom that I’m having an impossible time with my life.” “Should it upset her?”… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“[...] I thought, 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 Copy Share Image
“We all have a set number of days to indent the world with our beliefs, to find and create the beauty that… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for anything that reminds me of what's possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“How did she end up here, like this? How could there have been so much - so many moments, so many people… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The worst it got was near the end. A lot of people died right at the end, and I didn't know if… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Consider the life of a pregnant sow. Her incredible fertility is the source of her particular hell. While a cow will give… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“...if we are to be such nomads with the truth, why do we not make the story more premium than life? It… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I pointed at, Something. He pointed at, Nothing. I pointed at, Something. Nobody pointed at, I love you. There was no way… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“ I wish I were a poet. I've never confessed that to anyone, and I'm confessing it to you, because you've given… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Death is the only thing in life that you absolutely have to be aware of as it's happening.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“But not even to save your life?” “If nothing matters, there’s nothing to save.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“One day I wandered away from her and hid. I liked the way it felt to have someone look for me, to hear my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about it at… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“Food is not so much a symbol of freedom as the first requirement of freedom. We eat foods that are native to America on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I’ve yet to find a credible… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why?… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
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