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Time Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

97 Time quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

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A future can appear as a kaleidoscope of many possibilities, yet the writer feels shallow about his cultural roots. He notes that unspoken feelings can break a heart, and that reflecting on endless pasts and futures can leave one paralyzed in the present. He also sees the need for sympathy to create meaning.

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“...an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.”

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Every moment before this one depends on this one.

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“The moment before he started was my favorite moment.”

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There is no greater gift than time.

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Years were passing through the spaces between moments.

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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

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I regret how much I believed in the future.

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“My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”

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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the…

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“Every time you make a decision about food, Paul pleaded, quoting Berry, “you are farming by proxy.”

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“But the future lay open, a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities with a small quick heartbeat, delicate and impatient”

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What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?

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It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered,…

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“Once upon a time there was a man whose life was so good there's no story to tell about it.”

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The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.

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...there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the…

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“I said, I want to tell you something She said, you can tell me tomorrow. I had never told her how much…

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In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some…

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“I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly…

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My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made…

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“There are only so many times that you can utter 'It does not hurt' before it begins to hurt more than the…

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It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully…

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There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, "This is worthless. I'm wasting my time, and I…

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“I’m here, Dr. Fein, because it upsets my mom that I’m having an impossible time with my life.” “Should it upset her?”…

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Farmers since the beginning of time have been feeding the world very successfully without systematically abusing animals or destroying the environment. But…

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“Another reason it would be a good invention is that there are so many times when you know you're feeling a lot…

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I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked…

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“I'm not mad at you," she said. "Not even a little?" "No." "Do you still love me?" It didn't seem like the…

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I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights…

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“Once upon a time, USDA inspectors had to condemn any bird with such fecal contamination. But about thirty years ago, the poultry…

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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time,…

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“I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots…

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“Touch had always saved them in the past. No matter the anger or hurt, no matter the depth of the aloneness, a…

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“And this is what living next to a waterfall is like, Safran. Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure…

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“What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could…

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“What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could…

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“They say that people who live next to waterfalls don't hear the water. It was terrible at first. We couldn't stand to…

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“The next morning I told Mom I couldn't go to school again. She asked what was wrong. I told her, “The same…

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“Once upon a time the dominant ethic toward domestic animals, rooted in the demands of husbandry and responding to the fundamental problem…

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“What about a teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would become a mouth,…

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I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It…

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If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

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“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish”

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“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.”

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“Food is not so much a symbol of freedom as the first requirement of freedom. We eat foods that are native to America on…

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“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…

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Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

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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?…

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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…

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