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Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist.
* He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1977.
* He is the author of four novels: Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and The World Without You (2021).
* His novels have been translated into over 40 languages and have won numerous awards, including the National Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award.
* He is also the author of two non-fiction books: Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019).
* He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.

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inspirational quotes - Image for quote : You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

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

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inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

Jonathan Safran Foer

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

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I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

Jonathan Safran Foer

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time......why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.

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