"If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?"

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Jonathan Safran Foer

#Answers Quotes

“For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose intellectual development is slowed down. No matter how well he is endowed intellectually, if direct action and immediate gratification are the guiding principles of his behavior, there will be less incentive to develop the higher mental processes, to reason, to employ the imagination creatively. . . .”
“Subject matter comes to you, you don't go to it... Although I shoot extemporaneously a lot of the time, I prefer to have half a dozen shots in my mind. Probably I have seen them many times under different conditions and I have been thinking about them. The moment shall come when I shall go back to them and make the photographs.”
“Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.”
“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”
“I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.”
“There are two ways to get rid of an anxiety monster,my friend-you either have a bath or a nap.”

Source : Andrew Kaufman (2013). “All My Friends Are Superheroes”, p.25, Coach House Books
“I did a bit of modeling before I took up acting, and I was up for this big campaign - I can't remember which designer - and all these execs were looking at my portfolio. Then one said: 'We'd like to use you, but can you come back next year when you've lost this.' And he tapped the underside of his chin.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God, upon my knees, in prayer.”

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