Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated |
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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- Do you think I`m wonderful? - she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple.
- No - he said.
- Why?
- Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it`s only noon. You couldn`t be something that hundreds of others are.