Jonathan Safran Foer: Frasi in inglese
Jonathan Safran Foer è scrittore statunitense. Frasi in inglese.“Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.”
Origine: Eating Animals
Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 224
“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 113
“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
Origine: Everything Is Illuminated
Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 153
Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 99
“I'm so afraid of losing something I love, that I refuse to love anything.”
Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 216
Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Contesto: I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, my cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. (p. 17)
“I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?”
Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.”
Variante: The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.
Origine: Everything Is Illuminated
“The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”
Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 309
“I never confused what I had with what I was.”
Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close