"Books are for those without real lives, he……" — Jonathan Safran Foer

"Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement."

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526 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We…
August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the…
SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart;…
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are…
Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to…
Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to…
Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the…
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would…
The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that…
Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — 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… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — 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… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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