I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderfu…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Everything Is Illuminated, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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