“There are many premium writers, yes? Tolstoy, yes? He wrote War , and also Peace , which are both premium books.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Use humor as aggressively as chemo. Laugh until your hair falls out. There is nothing that can’t be played for a laugh.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“This was a troublesome supplication, because at the dawn of July, Ukraine was to celebrate the first birthday of its ultramodern constitution,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I know a lot about birds and bees, but I don't know very much about the birds and the bees. Everything 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 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 have tutored Little Igor to be a man of this world. For example, I exhibited him a smutty magazine three days… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“He spent the next weeks blocking scenes of the bureaucrat fucking his wife. On the floor with cooking ingredients. Standing, with socks… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“This is the sixty-nine,” I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers—two of them —on the… — 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 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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 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 not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]; Sadness of having options; Sadness of wanting sadness; Sadness of confusion; Sadness of…” quote by Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/52e/jonathan-safran-foer-136_anxiety_sadnesses-of-the-intellect-sadness-of-be_614773.jpg)
