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Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 21, 1977

Topics

Life Good Writing Think Hard Clear

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.

Dream Things Call Being Politician

Without meaning to sound crass, I've never had any psychological... help. It's because I feel my work is so revealing about who I am and what I am trying to understand about myself. It's a therapeutic process.

Work Myself I Am Process Feel Help

But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.

Work Women Heart Me Believe Face

Hollywood has always been crazy. It's controlled anarchy. But how can you loathe something that has given you so much?

Crazy You Hollywood Always Anarchy

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm a cultural repairman. It's all about efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, prosperous and life-sustaining.

World Resources Make Secure Cultural

I work with a lot of young people who have poems that are changing their lives, that they're eager to talk about, but every now and then when I meet someone, maybe someone of my parents' generation, and I tell them that I write poetry, they'll begin to recite something that they memorized when they were in school that has never left them.

Work School Poetry Parents People

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Love Words Man Silence People Night

In fact, I think - our view of this is that while the agreement, the compromise did not achieve the kind of super-sized deficit reduction that we sought, it did end the uncertainty around the perception, the possibility that the United States might default on its obligations for its first time. That was a good thing.

Good Time Perception Think End View

The cheapest gadget - and you don't even have to spend a dime - is chopsticks from a Chinese restaurant. I use them for everything: to toss salads, to turn a piece of meat in the pan, to flip croquettes in the Fryolator, to whisk eggs for omelets, to stir eggs into fried rice when I make that for my daughters.

Restaurant You Meat Everything Turn

I prayed a lot. That's all I had in the gym; that was the thing I could turn to.

Dominique Moceanu

Gym Turn Lot Could Thing Had

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

Poverty Up Seen Close Five Four

We feel that what's too far is when you make a joke and somebody gets hurt.

Hurt Feel You Joke Far Somebody

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