Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

About Jonathan Safran Foer:

Jonathan Safran Foer is an American writer. He is best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) and Eating Animals (2009). He teaches creative writing at New York University.
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She died in my arms, saying, "I don't want to die." That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war ...

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That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.

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I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our liv...

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What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?

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My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp.

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I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my mother's mother. Your father's mother's mother's mother. I hardly knew her. I didn't have any interest in knowing her. I have no need for the past, I ...

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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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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.

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He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

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He promised us that everything would be OK. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be OK. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

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Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am writing you this letter, or what this letter is supposed to be about, but I am writing it nonetheless, because I love you very much and trust that you h...

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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calender that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from the chimn...

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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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I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once." "Huh?" "It said, 'Oeuf.'" "What is that?" "It's a joke. Do you want to hear another, or have you already had un oeuf?

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Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

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Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.

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Because sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped.

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Being reliable is something. Being good.

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She took the posters downtown that afternoon. She filled a rolling suitcase with them ... she took a stapler. And a box of staples. And hope. I think of those things. The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape, the hope. It makes me sick. Physical...

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I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

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...is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but...

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Author Bio

  • NameJonathan Safran Foer
  • DescriptionNovelist
  • BornFebruary 21, 1977
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist