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Been Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It…
- ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are…
- I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
- We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed…
- And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a…
- Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I…
- ...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from…
- From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for…
- ...only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them....
- I could tell that Mom was dreaming, but I didn't want to know what she was dreaming about, because I had enough of my own…
- Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.
- Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade…
- What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden halt…
- ...accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be...may we live together in unwavering…
- My boots were so heavy that I was glad there was a column beneath us. How could such a lonely person have been living so…
- I was more alone than if I had been alone.
- I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things…
- I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never could explain why.…
- I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead…
- She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than…
- If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I…
- When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour