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He said, Let there be light. And there was darkness.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I said, I want to tell you something She said, you can tell me tomorrow. I had never told her how much I loved her. She was my sister. We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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E adesso, permettimi di chiederti come pensi che riuscirai a ottenere i risultati che mi hai elencato." "Seppelliro i miei sentimenti nel profondo di me." "Che cosa intendi per seppellire i tuoi sentimenti?" "Anche se saranno fortissimi non li lascero uscire. Se dovro piangere, piangero dentro. Se dovro sanguinare, mi verranno dei lividi. Se il mio cuore comincera a dare i numeri, non ne parlero con nessuno al mondo. Tanto non serve. Rovina..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The factory farm industry (in alliance with the pharmaceutical industry) currently has more power than public-health professionals... We give it to them. We have chosen, unwittingly, to fund this industry on a massive scale by eating factory-farmed animal products (and water sold as animal products) - and we do so daily.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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They lay in silence, thinking their own thoughts, each trying to know the other's. They were becoming strangers on top of each other.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Objects that don't exist don't exist. If we were to imagine such a thing as an object that didn't exist, it would be that thing that God hated. This is the strongest argument against the nonbeliever. If God didn't exist, he would have to hate himself, and that is obviously nonsense.
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religion
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I'm here, Dr. Fein, because it upsets my mom that I'm having an impossible time with my life." "Should it upset her?" "Not really. Life is impossible." --
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I'd write "Ha ha ha!" and instead of singing in the shower I would write out the lyrics of my favorite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs (..)"
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Me pase la vida aprendiendo a sentir menos. Cada dia sentia menos. ?Eso es madurar? ?O es algo peor? Uno no puede protegerse de la tristeza sin protegerse al mismo tiempo de la felicidad>>.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Another reason it would be a good invention is that there are so many times when you know you're feeling a lot of something, but you don't know what the something is. Am I frustrated? Am I actually just panicky? And that confusion changes your mood, it becomes your mood, and you become a confused, gray person
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Being with him made my brain quiet.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I invented a book that listed every word in every language. It wouldn't be a very useful book, but you could hold it and know that everything you could possibly say was in your hands.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I wish I could be a girl again, with the chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Wir konnen uns nicht mit Unwissenheit herausreden, nur mit Gleichgultigkeit.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Nobody wants to be a caricature. Nobody wants to be a diminished version of herself.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Parents don't have the luxury of being reasonable, not any more than a religious person does. What can make religious people and parents so utterly insufferable is also what makes religion and Parenthood so utterly beautiful: the All or nothing wager. The Faith.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I am a mother, she thought--not an answer to the question being asked, and no more her ultimate ambition than happiness, but her ultimate identity.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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La crueldad depende de que uno comprenda que esta siendo cruel y de las posibilidades que tiene a su alcance para evitarla.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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He saw what they either couldn't see or couldn't allow themselves to see, and that only made him more pissed, because being less stupid than one's parents is repulsive, like taking a gulp from a glass of milk that you thought was orange juice.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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How do children do that? Jacob wondered. Not only enter rooms silently, but at the worst possible moment.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you, Oskar. It's always necessary. I love you, Grandma.
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love
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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It made me start to wonderif there were other people so loney so close. I thought about "Eleanor Rigby." It's true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?" --
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Huznu asmanin tek yolu onu tuketmektir (...)
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I didn't want to hear about death. It was all anyone talked about, even when no one was actually talking about it.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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faces pressed against the pane, full of little, content with sawdust tears.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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We talked for hours, but we just kept repeating those same things over and over and over.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I'm not sure if you would consider this a dream or a memory, because it actually happened, but when I fall asleep I see the room in which I mourned the death of my son. For those of you who were there, you will remember how we sat without speaking, easting only as much as we had to. You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who were there, how it jerked it's wings before ..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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It is said that the Messiah will come at the end of the world." "But it was not the end of the world," Grandfather said. "It was. He just did not come."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The burning bush must not be consumed.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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What's it about? she asked. It's about love. She laughed. They're all about love.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Were we praying, Forgive our oppressors for what they have done? Or, Forgive us for what has been done to us? Or, Forgive You for Your inscrutability?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Herschel was a Jew." "And he was my best friend." "He was his best friend." "And I murdered him."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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SADNESSES OF THE COVENANT: Sadness of God's love; Sadness of God's back [sic]; Favourite-child sadness; Sadness of b[ein]g sad in front of one's God; Sadness of the opposite of belief [sic]; What if? Sadness; Sadness of God alone in heaven; Sadness of a God who would need people to pray to Him...
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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And" was the next word I lost, probably because it was so close to her name, what a simple word to say, what a profound word to lose."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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bombs poured down from the sky exploding across trachimbrod in bursts of light and heat those watching the festivities hollered ran frantically they jumped into the bubbling splashing frantically dynamic water not after the sack of gold buy to save themselves they stayed under as long as they could they surfaced to seize air and look for loved ones my safran picked up his wife and carried her like a newlywed into the water which seemed amid..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I ripped the page from my book - "I don't speak, I'm sorry." - and used it to dry her cheeks, my explanation and apology ran down her face like mascara."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York was in heavy boots.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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My father's face, when he said that, dissolved into a stillness, a sad expression, sadder than human feeling.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Why would a farmer lock the doors of his turkey farm?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar. Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life. Foer, Jonathan Safran (2006-04-04). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel (Kindle Locations 1939-1940). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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In the end, everyone loses everyone. There's no invention to get around that. And so, I felt that night like the turtle that everything in the universe was on top of.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Benle mutlulugum arasina saplanan mesafe dunya degildi, bombalar ve yanan binalar degildi, bendim, dusunmemdi, bir seyleri asla koyuveremiyor olmanin kanseriydi. Cehalet tam mutluluk mudur, bilmiyorum ama dusunmek cok aci verici ve soyleyin bana, dusunmek bana ne verdi, beni hangi ustun mertebeye getirdi? Dusunuyor, dusunuyor ve dusunuyorum, kendimi milyon kere mutlulugun disinda dusundum ama bir kere bile icinde dusunmedim. Cikarabildigim ..
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