"She repeats things until they are true, or……" — Jonathan Safran Foer
"She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be."
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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…
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the…
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SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart;…
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are…
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Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to…
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Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to…
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Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the…
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would…
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that…
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Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or…
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More Confusing Quotes
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I'll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that…
— Christian Bale
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I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't…
— Adele
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
— Yogi Berra
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
— Yogi Berra
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It's like deja-vu, all over again.
— Yogi Berra
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
— Erma Bombeck
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The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
— James Agee
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As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.
— Chaz Bono
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And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep…
— Gabriel Byrne
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?'…
— Ian Anderson
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I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the…
— Cesar Chavez
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