26 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer about thinking
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As for the bracelet Mom wore to the funeral, what I did was I converted Dad’s last voice message into Morse code, and I used sky-blue beads for silence, maroon beads for breaks between letters, violet beads for breaks between words, and long and short pieces of string between the beads for long and short beeps, which are actually called blips, I think, or something. Dad would have known.
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I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.
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These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.
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I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.
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I think it's very pretty. Can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? I think it's pretty. If you're the only one? That's pretty pretty. And what about the boys? Don't you want them to think you're pretty? I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.
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The word vegetarian, I think, does a disservice because there are a lot of people who care but maybe don't care, or can't care in an ultimate way. If you think about environmentalism, nobody would ask, "Are you an environmentalist or not?" The question doesn't make any sense.
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The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.
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There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative way, with phrases like "tax relief" or "Social Security reform." It's politically clever, but it's also completely disingenuous, and it's not something to aspire to.
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I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.
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