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" I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Out
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Always
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" The best books are the ones that ask the most questions. "
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Ask
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" I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God. "
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Way
" 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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Hate
" Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes. "
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People
" 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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" We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts. "
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History
Family
" Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness? "
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Happiness
Fill
" It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get. "
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About
Get
" 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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Family
Inspire
Mind
" The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity. "
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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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Book
" 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. "
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More
Older
" 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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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. "
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Time
Perfect
" 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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Long
Never
" When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself. "
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Some
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" I've never particularly liked bankers. "
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Liked
Never
" It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns. "
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Defend
Without
" 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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Thinking
Time
Focus
" When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not. "
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You
Meat
" Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud. "
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Slow
Fast
" 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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Debate
World
Now
" I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering what's nice about the physicality of them. "
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Two
Move
Nice
" Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting. "
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" 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. "
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