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Away Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
- There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is…
- I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that…
- Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook…
- The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have…
- Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become…
- I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something…
- Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it…
- ...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree,…
- I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
- Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or…
- Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book…
More Away Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius