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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 443a45c | I am so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| df4a2e9 | Jews have become the smartest weakest people in the history of the world. Look, I'm not always right. I realize that. But I'm always strong. And if our history has taught us anything, it's that it's more important to be strong than right. Or good, for that matter. I would rather be alive and wrong and evil. I don't need Bishop Wears-a-Tutu, or that hydrocephalic peanut farmer president, or the backseat-driving pseudo-sociologist eunichs fro.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 460e37c | Canary light of oil lamps | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| fdfd755 | Tomorrow was over the horizon and it would take an entire day to reach | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 46b2a7d | Children were allowed to lie down on the park as it was being moved. This was considered a concession, although no one knew why a concession was necessary, or why it was to children that this concession must be made. The biggest fireworks show in history lit the skies of New York City that night, and the Philarmonic played its heart out. The children of New York lay on their backs, body to body, filling every inch of the park, as if it had .. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 4c16f8d | Why do we do that? Why are the painful things always electromagnets? | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 7f4dfc1 | What do you think is going on?' 'I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides 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 outside. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| e230465 | He knew that I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| d71dbeb | Ze wil weten of ik van haar hou, dat is eigenlijk het enige wat de ene mens van de ander wil, het gaat niet om de liefde op zich, maar om het idee dat de liefde er is, zoiets als nieuwe batterijen in een zaklantaarn in de noodkist in de gangkast, | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| e964986 | Ik dacht, het is jammer dat we moeten leven, maar het is doodzonde dat we maar een leven krijgen, want als ik twee levens had gehad, had ik er eentje met haar doorgebracht. Dan was ik bij haar in de flat blijven wonen, | time | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 4fcd697 | Verlegenheid is als je je afkeert van iets wat je wilt. Schaamte is als je je afkeert van iets wat je niet wilt. | shyness | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| c1eb038 | The Uprighters called them names and promised them an eternity of agony in the next world for their eagerness to be comfortable in this one. But like Shmul S, the intestine-tied milkman, the Slouchers couldn't give a shit. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| c24d1cd | Sam enjoyed knowledge. The accumulation and distribution of facts gave him a feeling of control, of utility, of the opposite of the powerlessness that comes with having a smallish, underdeveloped body that doesn't dependably respond to the mental commands of a largish, overstimulated brain. | control facts knowledge power smarts | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 1eec7ba | Alex?" I told him yes. "You're my translator, right?" I asked him to be slow, because I could not understand him. In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits." | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| cc5a5d0 | 613 Traurigkeiten Traurigkeit des blauen Himmels, Traurigkeit der Wolken, Traurigkeit des Sommers, Traurigkeit der Sonne, Traurigkeit der Schafe, Traurigkeit des Beisammenseins, Traurigkeit von Weihnachten und Weihnachtsbaumen, Traurigkeit der Kuscheltiere, Traurigkeit des Schnees, Traurigkeit der Farbe, Traurigkeit der Gleise, Traurigkeit von Sex, Traurigkeit vor dem geliebten Menschen traurig zu sein, Traurigkeit der Schaukeln, Traurigkei.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| e40c584 | This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers--two of them --on the action, so that he would not overlook it. "Why is it dubbed sixty-nine?" he asked, because he is a person hot on fire with curiosity. "It was invented in 1969. My friend Gregory knows a friend of the nephew of the inventor." "What did people do before 1969?" "Merely blowjobs and masticating box, but never in chorus." He will .. | everything-is-illuminated humor | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| e468c1c | This was a troublesome supplication, because at the dawn of July, Ukraine was to celebrate the first birthday of its ultramodern constitution, which makes us feel very nationalistic, and so many people would be on vacation in foreign places. | ukraine | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 440e494 | Yankel's lipstick autobiography came flaking off his bedroom ceiling, falling gently like blood-stained snow to his bed and floor. You are Yankel. You love Brod. You are a Sloucher. You were once married, but she left you. You don't believe in an afterlife. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 33c913c | She took the paper from Yankel's hand, which was damp with rain, and fear of death, and death. Scrawled in a child's writing: Everything for Brod. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| a1aaeb6 | The arm was the arm, and it was the arm - not her husband, or even herself - that she thought about seven years later, on June 28, 1941, as the first German war blasts shook her wooden house to its foundations, and her eyes rolled back in her head to view, before dying, her insides. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| f3fddfb | 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. I would kiss my piano teacher, even if he laughed at me. I would jump with Mary on the bed, even if I made a fool of myself. I would send out ugly photographs, thousands of them. | Jonathan Safran Foer Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | ||
| 1f8806d | What if it was man and not God that did all of this?" "I do not believe in man, either." | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 24e7107 | By now, almost all of the shtetl's three hundred-odd citizens had gathered to debate that about which they knew nothing. The less a citizen knew, the more adamantly he or she argued. There was nothing new in this. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 42899bf | It was on the eve of Yom Kippur, the holiest of holy days, that a fly flew under the door of the synagogue and began to pester the hanging congregants. It flew from face to face, buzzing, landing on long noses, going in and out of hairy ears. AND IF THIS IS A TEST, the Venerable Rabbi enlightened, trying to keep his congregation together, SHOULD WE NOT RISE TO ITS CHALLENGE? AND I URGE YOU: CRASH TO THE GROUND BEFORE YOU RELEASE THE GREAT B.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 084691a | In another place, their sons were killed between the barbs of their own guard wire, killed with misfired bombs while squirming in the mire like animals, killed with friendly fire, killed sometimes without knowing that they were about to die - a bullet through the head while joking with a comrade, laughing | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 59b4988 | Esti ridicola. Nu fac decat sa dorm in alta camera. - Dar iubirea inseamna o camera. Asta-i tot ce inseamna. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| e6e4d30 | Ze wil weten of ik van haar hou, dat is eigenlijk het enige wat de ene mens van de ander wil, het gaat niet om de liefde op zich, maar om het idee dat de liefde er is. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 5383036 | A Lutsk ti ho comprato dei libri, le disse Yankel chiudendo la porta a prima sera, chiudendo fuori il resto del mondo. Non possiamo permetterceli, ribatte lei afferrando la borsa pesante. Domani dovro restituirli. Non possiamo permetterci neanche di non averli. Qual e la cosa che possiamo permetterci di meno: averli o non averli? A mio parere, perdiamo in ogni caso. Meglio perdere con i libri. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 129fb04 | I parenti sono le persone con cui mai bisogna avere vergogna. Sbagli, I parenti sono le persone che ti fanno sentire la vergogna quando te lo meriti. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| c291682 | When we lift our forks, we hang our hats somewhere. We set ourselves in one relationship or another to farmed animals, farmworkers, national economies, and global markets. Not making a decision - eating like everyone else - is to make the easiest decision, a decision that is increasingly problematic. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| c34dc1f | Era o tristete printre el si fotografie si nimic pe lume nu ma speria mai mult. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 22bf868 | Human beings are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 36c806d | E asa de greu sa te exprimi. - Eu inteleg. - Eu vreau sa ma exprim. - La fel si eu. - Imi caut vocea. - E in gura ta. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| dd58155 | Eram ca doi prieteni. Pentru prima oara de cand ma stiam, m-am simtit in intregime bine. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| e593d67 | gaura despre care incepea sa invete ca nu este exceptia in viata, ci regula. Gaura nu inseamna gol; golul exista in jurul ei. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 7cb3928 | In familia mea, tata este campion mondial la inchis discutii. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 3830632 | Si-a lasat familia de izbeliste. Mi-am scris expresia pe creier. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| a86ba1b | Ai carti publicate? - Nu, dar sunt inca foarte tanar. - Ai povestiri publicate? - Nu. Ma rog, una sau doua. - Cum sunt intitulate? - Las-o balta. - Asta-i un titlu clasa-ntaia. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 2de5dea | Am sa-mi fac desteptatorul la sase dimineata. - Sase? am interogat eu. Daca vreti sa stiti de ce am interogat, pai asta e din cauza ca pentru mine sase nu inseamna foarte devreme dimineata, ci foarte intarziat noaptea. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| ed86ad6 | In adancul inimii lor, tinerii sunt mai singuri decat batranii". Am citit asta undeva, intr-o carte si mi-a ramas in cap. Poate ca e adevarat. Poate ca nu. Mai curand, tinerii si batranii sunt singuri in feluri diferite, fiecare in felul sau..." | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 395c800 | De ce facem asa? De ce lucrurile dureroase sunt intotdeauna niste electromagneti? | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| b68d465 | What about little microphones? What if | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| a7c2d36 | Am facut eforturi sa te fac sa apari ca o persoana cu mai putina neliniste, asa cum mi-ai comandat sa fac in atatea ocazii. Asta e dificil de realizat, pentru ca in realitate tu esti o persoana cu foarte multa neliniste. Poate ar trebui sa folosesti droguri. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 3fd4476 | We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened. | Jonathan Safran Foer |