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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,

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.

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

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

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

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

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

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

Jonathan Safran Foer
Regret, I Regret

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
Source: www.npr.org

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.

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.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Life, Regret, Future

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

Why I'm not where you are ...

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

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

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

Jonathan Safran Foer
Life, Thinking, Limits

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

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Food, Safety, Responsible

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

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

It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Goodbye, Persons, Hard
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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