Jonathan Safran Foer quotes - page 13

Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist and essayist known for his inventive and emotionally resonant works. His books, such as "Everything Is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close," have received critical acclaim and been adapted into films. He often explores themes of family, identity, and trauma in his writing. Here are 311 of his quotes:

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

Jonathan Safran Foer

My insides don't match up with my outsides." "Do anyone's inside and outsides match up?" "I don't know. I'm only me." "Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside.

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If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.

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We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how.

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I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated.

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Why didn't he say goodbye? I gave myself a bruise. Why didn't he say 'I love you'?

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I said, 'I need to know how he died.' He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?' So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.

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But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.

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I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, my cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

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