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

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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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" 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. "

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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 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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" There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food. "

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

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

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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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" Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't. "

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" 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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" Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look? "

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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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" 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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" If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well. "

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" Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more. "

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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 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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" 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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" 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 are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a sensory way that we just say no to. "

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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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