Jonathan Safran Foer
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January 01, 1977
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Washington DC, The United States
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Literature & Fiction
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Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977) is an American writer best known for his 2002 novel Everything Is Illuminated. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, the novelist Nicole Krauss, and their son, Sasha.
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Jonathan Safran Foer on tour for the book "Everything is Iluuminated"
Author appearance, November 16, 2009 07:00PM
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Author appearance, November 16, 2009 07:00PM
Barnes and Noble Booksellers, Union Square, 33 East 17th Street, New York, NY, The United States
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"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living"
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
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"If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything is Illuminated: A Novel)
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything is Illuminated: A Novel)
"I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else. "
— Jonathan Safran Foer
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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