Jonathan Safran Foer: Frasi in inglese (pagina 9)

“I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love”

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Origine: Eating Animals

“I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.”

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Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him, so I buried them, and let them hurt me.”

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Variante: There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him, so I buried them, and let them hurt me. (p. 181)
Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 181

“My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside.”

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Oskar during a visit to his therapist, Dr. Fein
"Happiness, Happiness" (p. 201)
Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Contesto: "I feel too much. That's what's going on." "Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel the wrong ways? "My insides don't match up with my outsides." "Do anyone's inside and outsides match up?" "I don't know. I'm only me." "Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside." "But it's worse for me." "I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him." "Probably. But it really is worse for me."

“We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.”

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Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what were doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?”

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Origine: Eating Animals

“Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.”

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William Black talking with Oskar
"A Simple Solution to an Impossible Problem" (p. 297)
Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Contesto: "It's easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene... Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good."