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  1. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything is Illuminated

    It was the part when you said that you do not know anybody, and how that encompasses even you.
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  2. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything is Illuminated

    You are a schmuck," I informed the hero. "You're not using the word correctly," he said. "Yes I am," I said.
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  3. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything is Illuminated

    The Upright congregants looked down on the Slouchers, who seemed willing to sacrifice any Jewish law for the sake of what they feebly termed the great and necessary reconciliation of religion with life. The Uprighters called them names and promised them an eternity of agony in the next world for their eagerness to be comfortable in this one.
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  4. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything is Illuminated

    there are only so many times that you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.
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  5. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything is Illuminated

    I do not think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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  6. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything is Illuminated

    The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jews have four hundred for schmuck.
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  7. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything is Illuminated

    He had a birthmark on the third toe of his left foot. He wasn't able to urinate if someone could hear him. He thought cucumbers were good enough, but pickles were delicious-so absolutely delicious, in fact, that he questioned whether they were, indeed, made from cucumbers, which were only good enough.
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  8. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything is Illuminated

    laughed with him over black coffee, cried with him over yellowing pictures, talked greenly about having kids of her own,
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  9. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything is Illuminated

    From the unemployed Sloucher Lumpl W, who reclined on Passover not because it was religious custom but because why should that night be different from all others?: I'm not the greatest person that ever lived, but I would be a good father, and you know it.
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  10. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything is Illuminated

    This is milk that I am feeding you. It comes from Mordechai the milkman, whom you will meet one day. He gets the milk from a cow, which is a very strange and troubling thing if you think about it, so don't think about it . . . This is my hand that is petting your face. Some people are left-handed and some are right-handed. We don't know which you are yet, because you just sit there and let me do the handling . . . This is a kiss. It is what happens when lips are puckered and pressed against something, sometimes other lips, sometimes a cheek, sometimes something else. It depends . . . This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive."
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  11. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything is Illuminated

    almost all of the shtetl's three hundred–odd citizens had gathered to debate that about which they knew nothing. The less a citizen knew, the more adamantly he or she argued. There was nothing new in this. A month before there had been the question of whether it might send a better message to the children to plug, finally, the bagel's hole.
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  12. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything is Illuminated

    the humble antiques salesman who survived off charity, unable to part with any of his candelabras, figurines, or hourglasses
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