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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

“She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“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.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“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.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“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.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“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.”

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

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“… 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.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“To feel alone is to be alone.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated

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

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Tiere essen

Quelle: Eating Animals

“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.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“There were 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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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Variante: There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him, so I buried them, and let them hurt me. (p. 181)
Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 181

“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.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Oskar during a visit to his therapist, Dr. Fein
"Happiness, Happiness" (p. 201)
Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Kontext: "I feel too much. That's what's going on." "Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel the wrong ways? "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." "But it's worse for me." "I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him." "Probably. But it really is worse for me."

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

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“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?”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Tiere essen

Quelle: Eating Animals

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

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

William Black talking with Oskar
"A Simple Solution to an Impossible Problem" (p. 297)
Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Kontext: "It's easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene... 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.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated

“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.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Tiere essen

Quelle: Eating Animals

“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.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Tree of Codes

Quelle: Tree of Codes

“We spent our lives making livings.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“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.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Tree of Codes

Quelle: Tree of Codes

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

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“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?”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“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.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated

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

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Alles ist erleuchtet

Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated

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