35 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer about life

  • Author Jonathan Safran Foer
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    Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.

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  • Author Jonathan Safran Foer
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    If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

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  • Author Jonathan Safran Foer
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    I thought maybe if she could express herself rather than suffer herself, if she had a way to relieve the burden, she lived for nothing more than living, with nothing to get inspired by, to care for, to call her own, she helped out at the store, then came home and sat in her big chair and stared at her magazines, not at them but through them, she let the dust accumulate on her shoulders.

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