We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
September 11 had such a strong visual component, the most visually documented event in human history. Nothing's ever been seen by as… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards,… — 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
Mom said, "His spirit is there," and that made me really angry. I told her, "Dad didn't have a spirit! He had… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening.… — 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
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
