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Jonathan Safran Foer

"We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed were sighing. The sheets were rising and falling around me with Anna's breathing. I thought about waking her. but it was unnecessary. There would be other nights. And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you... It's always necessary. I love you,..."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

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“Rarely is it possible to study all of the instructions to a game before beginning to play, or to memorize the manual before turning on the computer. The excitement of improvisation lies not only in the risk of being involved but in the new ideas, as heady as the adrenaline of performance, that seems to come from nowhere.”
“When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to the countryside of grief, and that descent, resisted so long proves invigorating. . . . As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.”
“In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.”
“Don't do stuff that freaks him out, like what you're doing now. Do something that makes him happy.”
“The best things in life are . . . Annoying.”

Source : Grumpy Cat (2014). “The Grumpy Guide to Life: Observations from Grumpy Cat”, p.50, Chronicle Books
“I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic”
“I think drawing is really the basis of all art, even sculpture, film. The greatest filmmakers have always been able to at least roughly sketch out their ideas in storyboards. And black and white in particular is a good place to start.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.
“I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'”

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