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We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes? (Jonathan Safran Foer)
Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions. View quote
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And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt? View quote
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It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed. View quote
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Love... is the immovability of truth. View quote
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Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans. View quote
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Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you. View quote
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Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written. View quote
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Good people don't make fewer mistakes, they're just better at apologizing. View quote
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Yesterday I wanted to turn inside out. View quote
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I regret how much I believed in the future. (Jonathan Safran Foer)
The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night. View quote
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I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud. View quote
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand. View quote
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach. View quote
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Only humans can cry tears. View quote
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... an infinitely blank book and the rest of time. View quote
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In the end, everyone loses everyone. View quote
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Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon. View quote
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself. View quote
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining. (Jonathan Safran Foer)
I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own. View quote
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Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across. View quote
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I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next. View quote
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine. View quote
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Jonathan Safran Foer

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Photo: Elena Torre from Viareggio, Italia, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: American Writer
Born: February 21, 1977
Quotes count: 311
Wikipedia: Jonathan Safran Foer

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