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Stories Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- 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…
- We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.…
- We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
- I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.
- 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…
- My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.
- And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to…
- 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,…
- A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some…
- If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry…
- I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.
More Stories Quotes
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- 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 knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — 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
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe