Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes - Page 6

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• It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? 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.

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  Death, Dream, Selfish

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

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  Real, Book, Real Life

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.

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  Hurt, Doe

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• I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.

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  Running, Missing Someone, Eye

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

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  Long Distance Relationship, Ocean, White

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2003). “Everything is Illuminated”, p.224, Penguin UK

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• We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to arise between Nothing and Something, in the morning the Nothing vase cast a Something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that, at night the Nothing light spilled from the guest room spilled under the Nothing door and stained the Something hallway, there's nothing to say.

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  Morning, Memories, Night

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.

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  Leaving, Forgiving, Coming Back

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• I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder.

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  Keys, Doors, Able

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

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  Sorry, Unimportant Things, Inability

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I never confused what I had with what I was.

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  Confused

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.

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  Brain, Quiet, Made

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.

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  Sadness, Hands, Laughing

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• Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.

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  Matter, Lows, Be Good

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.297, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.

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  Baby, Judging, Guilt

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• What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden halt by the light touch of a finger. How did she end up here, like this? How could there have been so much - so many moments, so many people and things, so many razors and pillows, timepieces and subtle coffins - without her being aware? How did her life live itself without her?

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  Light, People, Coffins

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

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  Rain, Eye, Moon

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love - loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make it beautiful and fair, to live a once-removed life, in a world once-removed from the one in which everyone else seemed to exist.

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  Love, Beautiful, Lying

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• Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

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  Growing, Growing Old

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes. Being attentive to the needs of others might not be the point of life, but it is the work of life. It can be messy, and painful, and almost impossibly difficult. But it is not something we give. It is what we get in exchange for having to die.

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  Memories, Giving, Might

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• One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.

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  Lying, Opportunity, Plates

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.212, Penguin UK

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• It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

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  Past, Light, Sides

  "Everything Is Illuminated". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

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  People, Might, Sometimes

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

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  Understood, Persons

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

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  Race, Apples, Car

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• You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to read something funny than to read something tragic. It just goes over better because you have a finite amount of time with somebody. Of course, in a book, you have a lot of time. But you still do want to make a certain impression right when you begin.

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  Book, Reading, Order

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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