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Jonathan Safran Foer es un escritor estadounidense de origen judío.[1]​ Conocido por sus novelas Everything Is Illuminated , Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close , y por su trabajo de no-ficción Eating Animals .[2]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 21. febrero 1977
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Frases célebres de Jonathan Safran Foer

“Me pasé la vida aprendiendo a sentir menos.
Cada día sentía menos.
¿Eso es madurar? ¿O es algo peor?
Uno no puede protegerse de la tristeza sin protegerse al mismo tiempo de la felicidad».”

Jonathan Safran Foer libro Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Nuestro tabú contra comer perros dice algo de ellos y mucho de nosotros.
Los franceses, que adoran a sus perros, aveces se comen a sus caballos.
Los españoles, que adoran a sus caballos, aveces se comen a sus vacas.
Los indios, que adoran a sus vacas, aveces se comen a sus perros.”

Jonathan Safran Foer libro Eating animals

Eating Animals

“Comer animales, como el aborto, es uno de esos temas en los que es imposible saber de manera definitiva algunos de los detalles mas importantes. (¿Cuándo es un feto una persona real y no potencial? ¿Cómo es en verdad la experiencia animal?), lo cual remueve las desazones más profundas de uno y a menudo provoca actitudes defensivas o agresivas.”

Jonathan Safran Foer libro Eating animals

Eating Animals

“Las palabras nunca dicen lo que queremos decir con ellas.”

Jonathan Safran Foer

Todo está iluminado (2002)

“Quizá no exista la "carne". En su lugar, existe este animal, criado en esta granja, sacrificado en esta planta, vendido de este modo y consumido por esta persona.”

Jonathan Safran Foer libro Eating animals

Eating Animals

“Entre dos seres existe siempre una distancia singular, infranqueable, un santuario impenetrable. Unas veces adquiere forma de soledad. Otras, de amor”

Jonathan Safran Foer

Frases de amor de Jonathan Safran Foer

“Todo padre/madre que pierde a un hijo encuentra el modo de volver a reír. El timbre se desvanece. El filo se enfría. El dolor disminuye. Cada amor está tallado en la pérdida. El mío lo estaba. El tuyo lo está. El de tu tataratataratatara nieto lo estará. Pero aprendemos a vivir con ese amor.”

Jonathan Safran Foer

Todo está iluminado (2002)

“Aceptando el compromiso de como hemos sido, de como somos, y de como probablemente seremos…quizás vivamos juntos con un amor inquebrantable y una buena salud, amen.”

Jonathan Safran Foer

Todo está iluminado (2002)

“La vida de Brod consistía en darse cuenta lentamente de que el mundo no era para ella, y de que, por cualquier razón, ella nunca sería feliz y sincera al mismo tiempo. Se sentía rebosante, siempre produciendo y acumulando más amor dentro de ella. Pero no había liberación. Mesa, amuleto de elefante de marfil, arcoiris, cebolla, peinado, molusco, Shabbos, violencia, cutícula, melodrama, cuneta, miel, mantelito…Nada de eso la conmovía. Ella había etiquetado su mundo honestamente, buscando algo que mereciera las cantidades de amor que ella sabía que tenía en su interior, pero a cada cosa debía decirle, no te quiero.”

Jonathan Safran Foer

Todo está iluminado (2002)

“Pero más que eso, nunca se dijo una palabra sin amor, y todo se mostró como una pequeña prueba de que podía ser de esa manera, no tiene que ser así; si no hay amor en el mundo, haremos un nuevo mundo, con paredes gruesas, los decoraremos con tonos rojizos, de dentro a fuera, con un llamador que resuene como un diamante cayendo en el paño de un joyero de modo que nunca lo oigamos. Ámame, porque el amor no existe, y ya he probado todo lo que existe.”

Jonathan Safran Foer

Todo está iluminado (2002)

Frases de vida de Jonathan Safran Foer

“Ignoro las veces en que después de decirle a alguien que soy vegetariano, él o ella intentaban buscar una incoherencia en mi estilo de vida o trataban de buscar un error en un argumentación que yo no había hecho.”

Jonathan Safran Foer libro Eating animals

Eating Animals

“Mis amigos están convencidos de pasar en Odessa el resto de su vida. De envejecer como sus padres, y ser padres como sus padres. No desean ninguna otra cosa más allá de lo que conocen.”

Jonathan Safran Foer

Todo está iluminado (2002)

“Solía pensar que el humor era la única forma de apreciar lo maravilloso y terrible que es el mundo, para celebrar lo grande que es la vida. Pero ahora pienso lo contrario. El humor es el modo de refugiarse de este mundo maravilloso y terrible.”

Jonathan Safran Foer

Todo está iluminado (2002)

Jonathan Safran Foer Frases y Citas

“Muchos científicos predicen la debacle total de todas las especies de peces en menos de cincuenta años, mientras se realizan intensos esfuerzos por atrapar, matar y comer más animales marinos”

Jonathan Safran Foer libro Eating animals

Eating Animals

Esfuerzo , Los animales , Pez

“La crueldad depende de que uno comprenda que está siendo cruel y de las posibilidades que tiene a su alcance para evitarla.”

Jonathan Safran Foer libro Eating animals

Eating Animals

“Solía arroparla…pero ahora es ella la que arropa mis sentimientos en las arterias entrelazadas de mis venas.”

Jonathan Safran Foer

Todo está iluminado (2002)

“Lo que olvidamos de los animales es lo que empezamos a olvidar de nosotros mismos.”

Jonathan Safran Foer libro Eating animals

Eating Animals

Los animales

“La vergüenza es la sensación que nos invade cuando olvidamos casi por completo, pero no del todo, las expectativas sociales y nuestras obligaciones para con los otros, a cambio de nuestra satisfacción inmediata.”

Jonathan Safran Foer libro Eating animals

Eating Animals

Sensación , Cambio

“Me encuentro entre el 95 por ciento de propietarios varones de perros que les habla (aunque no en el 87 por ciento que cree que su perro le contesta).”

Jonathan Safran Foer libro Eating animals

Eating Animals

De perros

“Usamos una serie de teatrales señas
con las manos para comunicar lo que un
simple susurro habría hecho con la
misma eficacia. Pero hemos hecho voto
de silencio: ni una palabra hasta que estemos a salvo, de camino a casa.”

Jonathan Safran Foer libro Eating animals

Eating Animals

Silencio , Camino

“Nos llevamos el cachorro a casa. Lo (la) abracé desde el otro lado de la habitación. Luego, como ella no me dio ningún motivo para pensar que perdería algún dedo en el proceso, dejé que comiera de mi mano. Después le dejé que la lamiera. Y que me lamiera la cara. Y después lamí yo la suya. Y ahora me encantan todos los perros y somos felices para siempre.”

Jonathan Safran Foer libro Eating animals

Eating Animals

De perros

“Mesa, adorno de marfil, arcoíris, cebolla, peinado, molusco, Sabbat, violencia, cutícula, melodrama, cuneta, miel, pañuelo… Nada la conmovía. (…) Nada conseguía ser más de lo que era en realidad. Eran solo cosas, prisioneras de su propia esencia.”

Jonathan Safran Foer libro Everything Is Illuminated

Everything Is Illuminated

Realidad

“Es como un momento que hubiera vivido miles de veces antes, como si fuera algo familiar, justo en el momento de mi muerte, que sucederá otra vez un número infinito de veces, que nos encontraremos, nos casaremos, tendremos hijos, y triunfaremos del modo que podamos, fracasaremos en lo que tengamos que fracasar, siempre lo mismo, siempre incapaz de cambiar nada. Estoy al final de una rueda inacabable, y cuando siento que mis ojos se cierran para morir, como ha sucedido y sucederá miles de veces, me despierto.”

Jonathan Safran Foer

Todo está iluminado (2002)

Hijas , De muerte

“Vinieron tantos visitantes para tocarle y besarle y que se cumplieran sus deseos, que había que darle un baño completo de bronce cada mes, era un dios cambiante, destruido y recreado por su fe…Los que oraron comenzar a creer cada vez menos en él y cada vez más en sus creencias.”

Jonathan Safran Foer

Todo está iluminado (2002)

De Dios , De fe

“No tienes que venirme con no-verdades, Sasha. No soy un niño.”

Jonathan Safran Foer

Pero sí lo soy. Es lo que tu nunca llegas a entender. Yo te presento no-verdades para protegerte. Es por lo que trato inflexiblemente de ser un persona divertida. Todo es para protegerte. Yo existo por si acaso tú necesitas ser protegido
Todo está iluminado (2002)

De verdad

Jonathan Safran Foer: Frases en inglés

“It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Everything Is Illuminated

Fuente: Everything Is Illuminated

“I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Eating animals

Fuente: Eating Animals (2009)
Contexto: People care about animals. I believe that. They just don't want to know or to pay. A fourth of all chickens have stress fractures. It's wrong. They're packed body to body, and can't escape their waste, and never see the sun. Their nails grow around the bars of their cages. It's wrong. They feel their slaughters. It's wrong, and people know it's wrong. They don't have to be convinced. They just have to act differently. I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.

“Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Eating animals

Fuente: Eating Animals

“I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Fuente: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Fuente: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I used to tuck her … but now she tucked my feelings into the woven arteries of my veins.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Everything Is Illuminated

Everything Is Illuminated (2002)

“The responsibility lies with the mentality of the meat industry that treats both animals and "human capital" like machines … human beings cannot be human (much less humane) under the conditions of a factory farm or slaughterhouse.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Eating animals

Eating Animals (2009)

“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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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Everything Is Illuminated

Everything Is Illuminated (2002)

“Stalin found out about the community and sent his thugs in, just a few days before I got there, to break all of their arms! That was worse than killing them! It was a horrible sight, Oskar: their arms in crude splints, straight in front of them like zombies! They couldn't feed themselves, because they couldn't get their hands to their mouths! So you know what they did!" "They starved?" "They fed each other! That's the difference between heaven and hell! In hell we starve! In heaven we feed each other!" I don't believe in the afterlife.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"Neither do I, but I believe in the story."
Mr. Black talking with Oskar
"Heavier Boots" (p. 142)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

“Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else?”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Eating animals

Eating Animals (2009)

“She spent the afternoon staring at their front door. "Waiting for someone?" Yankel asked. "What color is this?" He stood very close to the door, letting the end of his nose touch the peephole. He licked the wood and joked, "It certainly tastes like red." "Yes, it is red, isn't it?" "Seems so." She buried her head in her hands. "But couldn’t it be just a bit more red?"”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Everything Is Illuminated

Fuente: Everything Is Illuminated (2002), pp. 79-80

“When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It was too big for me and would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweler to make it that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. If I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Fuente: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 79

“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.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Everything Is Illuminated

Everything Is Illuminated (2002)

“Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-children's will be. But we learn to live with that love.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Everything Is Illuminated

Everything Is Illuminated (2002)

“I wanted to build walls around him, I wanted to separate inside from outside, I wanted to give him an infinitely long blank book and the rest of time.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Fuente: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 280

“By the standards of the international human rights community, the typical working conditions in America's slaughterhouses constitute human rights violations.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Eating animals

Eating Animals (2009)

“Brod’s life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time. She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release. Table, ivory elephant charm, rainbow, onion, hairdo, mollusk, Shabbos, violence, cuticle, melodrama, ditch, honey, doily … None of it moved her. She addressed her world honestly, searching for something deserving of the volumes of love she knew she had within her, but to each she would have to say, I don’t love you.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Everything Is Illuminated

Everything Is Illuminated (2002)

“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…”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Everything Is Illuminated

Everything Is Illuminated (2002)

“He had a wall of masks from every country he‘d been to, like Armenia and Chile and Ethiopia. It‘s not a horrible world, he told me, but it‘s filled with a lot of horrible people.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

“But more than that, no unloving words were ever spoken, and everything was held up as another small piece of proof that it can be this way, it doesn't have to be that way; if there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it heavy 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 jeweler's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Everything Is Illuminated

Everything Is Illuminated (2002)

“Ray Black was in prison, so we weren't able to talk to him. I did some research on the internet and found out that he was in prison because he murdered two children after he raped them. There were also pictures of the dead children, and even though I knew it would only hurt me to look at them, I did. I printed them out and put them in *Stuff That Happened To Me*, right after the picture of Jean-Pierre Haigneré, the french astronaut who had to be carried from his spacecraft after returning form the MIR spacestation, because gravity isn't only what makes us fall, it's what makes our muscles strong.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

“I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never could explain why. Little, nothing touches, my fingers against his shoulder, the outsides of our thighs touching as we squeeled together on the bus. I couldnt explain it, but I needed it. Sometimes I imagined stiching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love?”

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Jonathan Safran Foer libro Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

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