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" 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. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Problem
Fish
Trees
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed. "
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" Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
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" 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. "
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" Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. "
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" 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? "
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" Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it. "
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" It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth. "
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" To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry. "
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" I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
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I Can
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" These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long. "
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" Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't. "
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" As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention. "
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" There is no greater gift than time. "
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" 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. "
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" Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange. "
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" We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take. "
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" The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening. "
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" Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat. "
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" People don't care enough. They don't get worked up enough. They don't get angry enough. They don't get passionate enough. I'd rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it. "
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" It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to. "
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" It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time. "
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" The best books are the ones that ask the most questions. "
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" Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. "
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" I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation. "
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" Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more. "
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" I will never come around to the idea of an anthropomorphic God. I'm also uncomfortable with the word 'God'... I'm agnostic about the answer and I'm agnostic about the question. "
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" I've never particularly liked bankers. "
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" The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs. "
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