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End Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured…
- 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…
- Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write…
- 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 tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I…
- The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.
- I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the…
- The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.
- In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything…
- And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or…
- (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You are wrong. Family…
- She spent an afternoon staring at their front door. Waiting for someone? Yankel asked. What color is this? He stood very close to the door,…
- There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.
- Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals. Continuing his work,…
- But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a…
- 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…
- Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
- I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to loose but lost and have to remember, being here…
- The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless,…
- In the end, everyone loses everyone.
- In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.
- This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating.…
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