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All Quotes by author - Jonathan Safran Foer
" Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins. "
Problem
Fish
Trees
" All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them. "
You
Great
Never
" As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention. "
Attention
Words
Pay Attention
" As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not. "
Think
More
Older
" Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud. "
Books
Slow
Fast
" Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it. "
Quality
Get
Meat
" Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat. "
Would
Animal
Ways
" Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more. "
Like
Children
Matters
" Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes. "
World
Meat
People
" Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. "
Makes
Feel
Reader
" Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car. "
Identity
Food
Car
" Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. "
Craving
Food
Identity
" For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time. "
Thought
Long
Never
" How could this world be so unlike the world that I believed I was living in? I can't describe it. Do I not want to describe it, or do I simply not possess the vocabulary? "
Vocabulary
How
World
" I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something. "
Out
Need
Always
" I am an on-and-off vegetarian. Sometimes on, mostly off. I think it is better to be a vegetarian but occasionally, the call of the hot dog overpowers my ethics. "
I Am
Ethics
Hot
" I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food. "
Simple
Animals
Great
" If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well. "
Camera
Hunting
Just
" I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else. "
My Own
Own
Else
" I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong. "
Know
Food
Done
" I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion. "
Kind
Religion
Makes
" I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things. "
Family
Time
Reading
" I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me. "
Disappointment
Funny
Me
" In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words. "
Evil
Good
Words
" I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write. "
Write
I Can
Need
" In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly. "
School
World
Effort
" I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that they learn about it from my wife and me, in a deliberate and safe way. But it's hard to imagine ever feeling ready to broach the subject without some impetus. "
Think
Wife
Me
" I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones. "
Choices
Time
Perfect
" I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain. "
Done
I See
Myself
" Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square? "
Square
Times Square
Who
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