Jonathan Safran Foer Quote

[...] I was engaged to Fitzgerald's sister! Who's Fitzgerald? Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, my boy! A Great Author! A Great Author! Oops. I used to sit on her porch and talk to her father while she powdered her nose upstairs! Her father and I had the most lively conversations! He was a Great Man, like Winston Churchill was a Great Man! I decided it would be better to Google Winston Churchill when I got home, instead of mentioning that I didn't know who he was. One day, she came downstairs and was ready to go! I told her hold on for a minute, because her father and I were right smack in the middle of a terrific conversation, and you can't interrupt a terrific conversation, right! I don't know. Later that night, as I was dropping her off on that same porch, she said, 'Sometimes I wonder if you like my father more than me!' I inherited that damn honesty from my mother, and it caught up with me again! I told her, 'I do!' Well, that was the last time I told her 'I do,' if you know what I mean! I don't. I blew it! Boy, did I blow it! He started cracking up extremely loudly and he slapped his knees.

Jonathan Safran Foer

[...] I was engaged to Fitzgerald's sister! Who's Fitzgerald? Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, my boy! A Great Author! A Great Author! Oops. I used to sit on her porch and talk to her father while she powdered her nose upstairs! Her father and I had the most lively conversations! He was a Great Man, like Winston Churchill was a Great Man! I decided it would be better to Google Winston Churchill when I got home, instead of mentioning that I didn't know who he was. One day, she came downstairs and was ready to go! I told her hold on for a minute, because her father and I were right smack in the middle of a terrific conversation, and you can't interrupt a terrific conversation, right! I don't know. Later that night, as I was dropping her off on that same porch, she said, 'Sometimes I wonder if you like my father more than me!' I inherited that damn honesty from my mother, and it caught up with me again! I told her, 'I do!' Well, that was the last time I told her 'I do,' if you know what I mean! I don't. I blew it! Boy, did I blow it! He started cracking up extremely loudly and he slapped his knees.

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About Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer (; born February 21, 1977) is an American novelist. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and for his non-fiction works Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019). He teaches creative writing at New York University.