Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been t…

Jonathan Safran Foer
500 citations
Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user’s manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things. ✨ New American Haggadah. Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.
Philosophy Reading Time
7

More Author Quotes

Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite? ✨ About the Typefaces Not Used in This Edition by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.theguar … ▶
There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.
Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the sighs, screams, and groans — small and large, crude and multifaceted — that concern … ▶
She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anyw … ▶

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes