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Jonathan Safran Foer, né le 21 février 1977 à Washington, D.C., est un écrivain américain.

✵ 21. février 1977
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Jonathan Safran Foer: Citations en anglais

“Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Variante: We stopped laughing, I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 71

“With writing, we have second chances.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 279

“I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
Contexte: "You do not have to present not-truths to me, Sasha. I am not a child."(But I do. That is what you always fail to understand. I present not-truths in order to protect you. That is also why I try so inflexibly to be a funny person. Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.)

“Words never mean what we want them to mean.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated (2002)

“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I spent my life learning to feel less.
Every day I felt less.
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
You can not protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Oskar's grandmother to his grandfather after she told him of her pregnancy.
"My Feelings" (p. 180)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

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