Jonathan Safran Foer

Quotes

• “I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.”
• “"I used to tuck her … but now she tucked my feelings into the woven arteries of my veins."”
• “"You do not have to present not-truths to me, Sasha. I am not a child."(But I do. That is what you always fail to understand. I present not-truths in order to protect you. That is also why I try so inflexibly to be a funny person. Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.)”
• “Accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be... may we live together in unwavering love and good health, amen.”
• “SADNESSES OF THE COVENANT: Sadness of God's love; Sadness of God's back [sic]; Favorite-child sadness; Sadness of b[ein]g sad in front of one's God; Sadness of the opposite of belief [sic]; What if? Sadness; Sadness of God alone in heaven; Sadness of a God who would need people to pray to Him...”
• “So many visitors came to rub and kiss different parts of him for the fulfillment of their various wishes that his entire body had to be rebronzed every month. He was a changing god, destroyed and recreated by his believers, destroyed and recreated by their belief... Those who prayed came to believe less and less in the god of their creation and more and more in their belief.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1977-02-21 ) February 21, 1977 (age 49) , Washington, D.C. , U.S.

Nickname

JSF

Occupation

Novelist

Education

Princeton University ( BA ), Mount Sinai Medical Center

Notable works

Everything Is Illuminated (2002)

Spouse

Nicole Krauss ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2004 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2014 ) ​

Parents

Esther Safran Foer (mother)

Relatives

Franklin Foer (brother) Joshua Foer (brother)

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