Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

• We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Heart, Technology, Worry

  "Jonathan Safran Foer: technology is diminishing us" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2016.

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• Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Order, Sometimes

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Regret, I Regret

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• Te amo también significa que te amo más de lo que nadie te ama, o te ha amado, o te amará, y también, te amo de una manera que nadie te ama, o te ha amado, o te amará, y también, te amo de una manera que no amo a nadie más, y nunca he amado a nadie más, y nunca amaré a nadie más.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Love, Romantic, Mean

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2003). “Everything is Illuminated”, p.182, Penguin UK

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• Words never mean what we want them to mean.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mean, Want, Language

  "Everything Is Illuminated". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, April 16, 2002.

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  No puedes protegerte de la tristeza sin protegerte de la felicidad.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Happiness, Sad, Being Happy

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Shells, Saws

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Moving, Opportunity, Live Your Life

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Why I'm not where you are ...

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dónde estás

  "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2005.

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• Nunca se dará el caso de que la gente no coma carne. Creo que algún día podría darse el caso de que la gente comiera cantidades muy pequeñas. Que sea algo especial, en lugar de consumirla porque es barata o porque es cómoda, que se convierta en algo festivo o de celebración, una vez a la semana, y eso podría conseguirse en pequeñas granjas si cambiáramos de verdad nuestros hábitos.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, People, One Day

  "Extremely Dead and Incredibly Gross". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 25, 2009.

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• Por qué no aprendí a tratar todo como si fuera la última vez. De lo que más me arrepiento es de lo mucho que creía en el futuro.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Life, Regret, Future

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  Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Life, I Hate You, Weight

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Life, Thinking, Limits

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• She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sad, Lost Love, Grief

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Different, Done, World

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sadness, Overcoming, Way

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No responder es una respuesta: somos igualmente responsables de lo que no hacemos.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Food, Safety, Responsible

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• I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Happiness, Positivity, Thinking

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Want, Shyness, Turns

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Scare, Comfort, Vivid

  "Speechless" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.newyorker.com. September 12, 2011.

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  I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  One Day, Someone You Love

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Numbers, Suffering

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• It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  I Hate You, Loving You, Missing

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No hay nada malo en no entenderse a uno mismo.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  People, Understanding, Understanding Yourself

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Otoño, Ríos, Árbol

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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