"...the meaning of my thoughts started to float……" — Jonathan Safran Foer
"...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river."
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526 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer has 526 quotes on this site.
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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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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to…
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit…
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
— Francis Bacon
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
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