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Jonathan Safran Foer [ˈdʒɒnəθən ˈsæfɹən ˈfɔːɹ] ist ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Sein erster Roman Everything Is Illuminated erschien 2002. In Deutschland erlangte Foer Bekanntheit vor allem mit seinem im November 2009 erschienenen Sachbuch Eating Animals , das sich mit den Problemen der industrialisierten Tierproduktion auseinandersetzt. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. Februar 1977
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Jonathan Safran Foer Berühmte Zitate

„Ein Junge und ein Mädchen liegen auf dem Boden, vor sich die Dachschräge. Sie konzentriert sich auf den Jungen, der aus dieser Entfernung so aussieht, als wäre er in ihrem Alter. Und selbst aus dieser Entfernung kann sie erkennen, dass das Buch, aus dem er ihr vorliest, "Das Buch der Begebenheiten" ist.
Der Junge schläft ein, und das Mädchen legt den Kopf auf seine Brust. Brod will mehr hören - sie will schreien: LIES MIR WEITER VOR! ICH MUSS ES WISSEN! -, aber sie können sie von dort, wo sie ist, nicht hören, und von dort, wo sie ist, kann sie die Seite nicht umblättern. Die Seite - Brods papierdünne Zukunft - ist, von dort, wo Brod ist, unendlich schwer.“

Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Everything Is Illuminated

„Ich versuche mich an alles zu erinnern, was ich getan habe, Oskar. Und alles, was ich nicht getan habe. Die Fehler, die ich begangen habe, sind mir egal. Aber was ich nie getan habe, kann ich auch nicht zurücknehmen.“

Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

„… des verstorbenen Philosophen Pinchas T., der in seiner einzigen bedeutenden Abhandlung "An den Staub: vom Menschen bist du, und zum Menschen sollst du werden" argumentierte, es sei theoretisch möglich, das Leben und die Kunst gegeneinander auszutauschen.“

Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Everything Is Illuminated

„Wir können uns nicht mit Unwissenheit herausreden, nur mit Gleichgültigkeit.“

Jonathan Safran Foer buch Tiere essen

Eating Animals

„Man kann auch die Waldbrandgefahr mindern, indem man sämtliche Bäume fällt.“

Jonathan Safran Foer buch Tiere essen

Eating Animals

„Mein Inneres reibt sich am Außen.“

Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

„… aber wenn wir uns die Mühe machen und uns umsehen, können wir nicht leugnen, dass wir mit unseren täglichen Entscheidungen die Welt gestalten.“

Jonathan Safran Foer buch Tiere essen

Eating Animals

„Sie war ein Genie der Traurigkeit: Sie badete in Traurigkeit, sie entwirrte die zahlreichen Stränge der Traurigkeit, sie kostete alle zarten Nuancen der Traurigkeit aus. Sie war ein Prisma, durch dass die Traurigkeit in ihr undendlich breit gefächertes Spektrum zerlegt werden kontte.“

Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Everything Is Illuminated

Jonathan Safran Foer: Zitate auf Englisch

“I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated

“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated

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

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated

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

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

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

“Why are you leaving me?
He wrote, I do not know how to live.
I do not know either but I am trying.
I do not know how to try.
There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me”

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“You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated

“She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated

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

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

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

“With writing, we have second chances.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated

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

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated

“I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.”

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“Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: 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.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: 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?”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: 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.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
Kontext: "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.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Quelle: 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.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: 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.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

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

“… because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated

“Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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