"She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

#Sadness Quotes #Hands Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds, in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends.”
“No matter what the problem is, it's a people problem.”
“Iâ€™m just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But Iâ€™m happy. Not sad. Iâ€™m just shy and nervous.”
“You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)”
“Anything that can be dreamed is true.”
“My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a habitation on Mars and we have programs to look at colonizing the Moon but we do not have a program looking at how we colonize our own planet, and the technology is at hand!”
“What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?”
“I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.”

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