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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

“D'après toi, pourquoi es-tu ici, Oskar?
- Je suis ici, docteur, parce que maman est inquiète que la vie me mette devant des difficultés insurmontables.
- Est-ce qu'elle a raison de s'inquiéter?
- Pas vraiment. La vie est une difficulté insurmontable.”

Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer: Citations en anglais

“… people with nothing to declare carry the most.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“There is nothing wrong with compromising, even if you are compromising almost everything.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 175

“He ran the back of his hand up her cheek, with the pretense of wiping away sweat.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer livre Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?”

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Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?”

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Jonathan Safran Foer livre Eating Animals

Source: Eating Animals

“I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember”

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Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer

“Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer livre Eating Animals

Source: Eating Animals

“I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer livre Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated (2002)

“… sometimes you have to put your fears in order…”

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Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer livre Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer livre Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“I'd lost count of the disappointments.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: 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 livre Eating Animals

Source: 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 livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: 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 livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: 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 livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: 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 livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: 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 livre Eating Animals

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.
Source: 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 livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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