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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. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

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" Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us. "

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" 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. "

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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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" I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better. "

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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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" Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. "

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" When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think of as burdensome are actually the things that make us more human. "

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" When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" 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. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on. "

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" I've never particularly liked bankers. "

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" Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now. "

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" My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration. "

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" It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" 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. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" 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. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children. "

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" My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am. "

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" You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you. "

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" My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice. "

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" That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don't have time for all that; I don't want to get into it. "

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" What the world does not need is a Haggadah that pats itself on the back. It needs a Haggadah that gets out of the way, that starts a conversation and gets out of the way. "

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" 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. "

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" The best books are the ones that ask the most questions. "

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