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Jonathan Safran Foer je americký spisovatel známý především díky svým dvěma románům Naprosto osvětleno a Příšerně nahlas a k nevíře blízko . Mezi jeho další dílo z oblasti literatury faktu patří kniha Jíst zvířata nebo grafický román Tree of Codes . Jeho poslední román Here I Am byl publikován v roce 2016. Do češtiny zatím nebyl přeložen. Mimo svou autorskou činnost vyučuje tvůrčí psaní na New York University. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. únor 1977
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Jonathan Safran Foer nejznámější citáty

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

„Proč nejsem tam, kde jsi ty?“

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Jonathan Safran Foer citáty a výroky

„Miluji tě víc, než tě miluje kdo jiný, nebo tě kdy kdo miloval nebo milovat bude. Miluji tě tak, jak tě nemiluje nikdo jiný, jak tě nikdy nikdo nemiloval a milovat nebude. Miluji tě tak, jak nemiluji nikoho jiného, jak jsem nikdy nikoho jiného nemiloval a milovat nebudu.“

Jonathan Safran Foer

Naprosto osvětleno

„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.“

Jonathan Safran Foer

Naprosto osvětleno

„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.“

Jonathan Safran Foer

Naprosto osvětleno

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

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Jonathan Safran Foer: Citáty anglicky

“We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Zdroj: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Everything Is Illuminated

Zdroj: Everything Is Illuminated

“Everyone performs bad actions… A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Everything Is Illuminated

Zdroj: Everything Is Illuminated

“Isn't it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the Earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be room to bury anyone anymore?”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Zdroj: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt?”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Zdroj: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Zdroj: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Kontext: She died in my arms saying, "I don't want to die." That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we could never have war anymore. (p. 189)

“It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Everything Is Illuminated

Zdroj: Everything Is Illuminated

“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Everything Is Illuminated

Zdroj: Everything Is Illuminated

“Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Eating Animals

Zdroj: Eating Animals

“Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Zdroj: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.”

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“Good people don’t make fewer mistakes, they’re just better at apologizing.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Here I Am

Zdroj: Here I Am

“the desire to wring out a few more drips of happiness almost always destroyed the happiness you were so lucky to have, and so foolish never to acknowledge.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Here I Am

Zdroj: Here I Am

“Yesterday I wanted to turn inside out.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Tree of Codes

Zdroj: Tree of Codes

“I regret how much I believed in the future.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Zdroj: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Everything Is Illuminated

Zdroj: Everything Is Illuminated

“I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Zdroj: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Zdroj: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Zdroj: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Everything Is Illuminated

Zdroj: Everything Is Illuminated

“I’m not smarter than you, I’m more knowledgeable than you, and that’s only because I’m older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Zdroj: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Only humans can cry tears.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Zdroj: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“… an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Varianta: I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
Zdroj: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Our stories are so fundamental to us that it’s easy to forget that we choose them.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Here I Am

Zdroj: Here I Am

“In the end, everyone loses everyone.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Zdroj: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Zdroj: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Everything Is Illuminated

Zdroj: Everything Is Illuminated

“I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Zdroj: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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