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Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

born 1977 United States

Jonathan Safran Foer (born February 21, 1977) is an American fiction writer.

United States
Novelists
Short story writers

Also known as: Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Extremely loud incredibly close

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That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into. (p. 71)

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

My friends are appeased to stay in Odessa for their entire lives. They are appeased to age like their parents, and become parents like their parents. They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.

Everything Is Illuminated (2002)

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did. (p. 309)

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of. (p. 74)

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.

Everything Is Illuminated (2002)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jonathan Safran Foer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.