"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

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #Liars Quotes

“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
“THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE has nothing to do with melodrama It is that life as lived by me now is a series of exceptions I was (am?) not unique but special. This is why I was an artist”
“No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.”
“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.”
“As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.”
“The relationship between looking and desire is really about the promise of revelation - the hope that the subject of your gaze will reveal something to you - whether or not that revelation is prurient. And that's really what eroticism is - the anticipation of disclosure.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.”
“I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's great.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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