Persons Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

23 Persons quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

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Foer’s prose frequently spotlights the fragile threads that bind us, and these twenty‑three reflections give a concise portrait of his compassionate view of humanity.

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Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do… I am not a hero, it is…

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I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?

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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.

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I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

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While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending…

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“ We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses…

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[S]o if the device of the person in the ambulance detected the device of the person he loved the most, or the…

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We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don't care if we're lying. I am a bad…

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...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't…

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She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to…

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Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy.…

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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…

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My boots were so heavy that I was glad there was a column beneath us. How could such a lonely person have…

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I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not…

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It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed,…

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He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and…

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This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them…

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This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we…

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Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees…

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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…

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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending…

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I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than…

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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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“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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