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The quote suggests that changing once is not the hard part. The harder challenge is keeping that change in place over time. It shifts attention from the moment of transformation to the discipline of staying different.
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About Jonathan Safran Foer
American novelist
Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist and writer. He is associated with contemporary American fiction and has 239 quotes on the site. He is known for the novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, and Here I Am, as well as the non-fiction works Eating Animals and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast. He also teaches creative writing at New York University. His writing often moves between fiction and nonfiction, with attention to family, memory, and environmental concern.
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Books by Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything Is Illuminated
2003
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
2006
Here I Am
2017
Eating animals
2009