Jonathan Safran Foer citáty

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„Všechno je takové, jaké je, protože všechno bylo takové, jaké bylo.“

„Na tom, že si nerozumíte, není nic špatného.“

„Je škoda, že musíme žít, ale je tragédie, že můžeme žít jen jeden život.“

„Nereagování je také reakce - jsme stejně zodpovědní za to, co neuděláme.“

„Proč nejsem tam, kde jsi ty?“

„Netoužila po ničem víc než po komsi, kdo by jí mohl scházet, koho by se mohla dotýkat, s nímž by si mohla dětinsky povídat, s kým by mohla být dítětem.“

„Ona vždycky viděla do něj a skrz něj, jako by byl okno. Vždycky cítila, že o něm ví všechno, co se vědět dá - ne protože by byl prostý, ale protože je poznatelný, asi jako nákupní seznam nebo jako encyklopedie.“

„Vzpomínka měla vyplnit čas, ale udělala z času díru, kterou bylo třeba zaplnit.“

„Chyby, které jsem udělal, jsou pro mě mrtvé. Ale nemohu vzít zpět věci, které jsem nikdy neudělal.“

„Dokážu ti odpustit, že jsi odešel, ale ne, že ses vrátil.“

„Dělám pro tebe něco, co nesnáším. Tohle znamená být zamilovaný.“

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“… 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.”

“To feel alone is to be alone.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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?”

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

“I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.”

“Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.”

“It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.”

“But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.”

“How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.”

“I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.”

“We spent our lives making livings.”

“We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.”

“I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.”

“… Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]…”

“We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?”

“She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.”

“She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.”