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I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived

I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Country, Home, Cities
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Song, Home, Car
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Wall, Home, Anna
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representative or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Home, Writing, Son
"Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends’ houses. I like places where there’s stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Coffee, Home, Writing
Interview with Joshua Wolf Shenk, www.motherjones.com. May 2005.

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