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Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes - Page 15

Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.

"Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

"Blunt speaking" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2005.

It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me.

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

She is deranged, but so so playful.

"Everything Is Illuminated". Comedy, Drama, 2005.