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Джонатан Сафран Фоер — американский писатель еврейского происхождения.

✵ 21. Февраль 1977
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“Every moment before this one depends on this one.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Everything Is Illuminated

Источник: Everything Is Illuminated

“We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things…”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Why I'm Not Where You Are”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Everything Is Illuminated

Источник: Everything Is Illuminated

“Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Everything Is Illuminated

Источник: Everything Is Illuminated

“I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Контексте: I felt that night, on the stage, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming? (p. 145)

“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Everything Is Illuminated

Источник: Everything Is Illuminated

“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true." "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 43

“She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 130

“Songs are as sad as the listener.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Вариант: It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 208

“My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Everything Is Illuminated

Источник: Everything Is Illuminated

“he came to think, It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Everything Is Illuminated

Источник: Everything Is Illuminated

“Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

"My Feelings" (p. 179)
Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

“She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Вариант: She had been in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love, but rather doing something much more ordinary
Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close