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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. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

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" I've never particularly liked bankers. "

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" All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them. "

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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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" We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit. "

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" I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion. "

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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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" When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself. "

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" Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square? "

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

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

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

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" It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get. "

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

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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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" 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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" I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something. "

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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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" As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention. "

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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 kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" There is no greater gift than time. "

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" It's possible to make things that aren't just money-makers. Something wonderful for its own sake. "

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