Are you an optimist or a pessimist?"
"I can't remember. Which?"
"Do you know what those words mean?"
"Not really."
"An optimist is positive and hopeful. A pessimist is negative and cynical."
"I'm an optimist."
"Well, that's good, because there’s no irrefutable evidence. There’s nothing that could convince someone who doesn’t want to be convinced. But there is an abundance of clues that would give the wanting believer something to hold on to.
Tags: optimism
The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish
Jonathan Safran FoerI was thankful," said my father, "for the make-believe.
Jonathan Safran FoerMy father's face, when he said that, dissolved into a stillness, a sad expression, sadder than human feeling.
Jonathan Safran Foer[...] he felt that he too was only a baby, with the chance to live without shame, without the need for consolation for a life lived wrong, a chance to be again innocent, simply and impossibly happy.
Jonathan Safran FoerDeath is the only thing in life that you absolutely have to be aware of as it's happening.
Jonathan Safran FoerShe was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.
Jonathan Safran FoerBooks are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.
Jonathan Safran FoerThere's nothing that could convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced. But there is an abundance of clues that would give the wanting believer something to hold on to.
Jonathan Safran FoerWhen I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calender that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from the chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table.
I spent my life learning to feel less.
Every day I felt less.
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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