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Book Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- 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…
- The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story…
- I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.
- I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.
- I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They…
- Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.
- In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you…
- Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and…
- From the movie "Everything is Illuminated" based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer: I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has…
- 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…
- He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you…
- I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
- 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…
- I'm grateful for anything that reminds me of what's possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music can do that.…
- I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say...
- Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.
- When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think of as burdensome…
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- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood