Jonathan Safran Foer: Frasi in inglese

Jonathan Safran Foer è scrittore statunitense. Frasi in inglese.
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“If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino

Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Se niente importa

Origine: Eating Animals

“If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino

Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I said, 'I need to know how he died.'
He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'
So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino

Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino

Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino

Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“It's always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Se niente importa

Variante: While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
Origine: Eating Animals

“I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino

Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino

Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I read the first chapter ofwhen Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino

Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino

Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino

Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to.”

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“I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino

Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino

Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino

Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“… the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino

Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“To feel alone is to be alone.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Ogni cosa è illuminata

Origine: Everything Is Illuminated