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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Here I Am
Sam enjoyed knowledge. The accumulation and distribution of facts gave him a feeling of control, of utility, of the opposite of the powerlessness that comes with having a smallish, underdeveloped body that doesn't dependably respond to the mental commands of a largish, overstimulated brain.
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Here I Am
Jews have become the smartest weakest people in the history of the world. Look, I'm not always right. I realize that. But I'm always strong. And if our history has taught us anything, it's that it's more important to be strong than right. Or good, for that matter. I would rather be alive and wrong and evil. I don't need Bishop Wears-a-Tutu, or that hydrocephalic peanut farmer president, or the backseat-driving pseudo-sociologist eunichs from the New York Times op-ed page, or anyone, to give me their blessing. I don't need to be a Light unto the Nations; I need to not be on fire. Life is long when you're alive, and history has a short memory. America had its way with the Indians. Australia and Germany and Spain … They did what had to be done. And what was the big deal? Their history books have a few regrettable pages? They have to issue weak-tea apologies once a year and pay out some reparations to the unfinished parts of the job? They did what had to be done, and life went on.
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Here I Am
Mark had said it wasn't too late in life for happiness. When, in Julia's life, would it be late enough for honesty? It was amazing how little changed as everything changed. The conversation was continually expanding, but it was no longer clear what they were talking about.
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Here I Am
None of his colleagues or friends, or former colleagues or former friends, had died. Sometimes it amazed him that he'd managed to live forty-twoyears withoutproximity to mortality. And that amazement was always followedby the fear that the statistics wouldcatch up withhimandoffer a lot of death atonce. And he wouldn't be ready.
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Here I Am
Punch with your mouth and talk with your feet.
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Here I Am
long before man traveled into space, rabbis debated how one would observe Shabbat there-not because they anticipated space travel but because Buddhists strive to live with questions and Jews would rather die.
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Here I Am
The inside of life became far smaller than the outside, creating a cavity, an emptiness.
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Here I Am
She found the company that made her favorite architectural model trees. They weren't the most realistic, they weren't even well made. She didn't like them because they evoked trees but because they evoked the sadness that trees evoke.
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Here I Am
Tiny acts of shitty retribution for tiny acts of shitty retribution for tiny acts of shitty retribution for an original offense that no one could remember. Or for no offense at all.
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Here I Am
Touch had always saved them in the past. No matter the anger or hurt, no matter the depth of the aloneness, a touch, even a light and passing touch, reminded them of their long togetherness. A palm on a neck: it all flooded back. A head leaned upon a shoulder: the chemicals surged, the memory of love. At times, it was almost impossible to cross the distance between their bodies, to reach out. At times, it was impossible. Each new the feeling so well, in the silence of a darkened bedroom, looking at the same ceiling: If I could open my fingers, my heart's fingers could open.
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Here I Am
She smiled a smile to bring a thousand ships to harbor."
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Here I Am
No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time
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