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" I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Done
I See
Myself
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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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" 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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" 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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" Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square? "
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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. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
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" There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on. "
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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'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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" Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. "
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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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World
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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'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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" There is no greater gift than time. "
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Greater
Gift
Than
" There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
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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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" 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. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Two
Way
Marble
" It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get. "
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Hunting
About
Get
" 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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Time
Decision
Wife
" Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Literature
Art
Art Forms
" It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Hard
Life
Lines
" We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Experiments
Children
Made
" 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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World
" We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want 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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" As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention. "
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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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" I've never particularly liked bankers. "
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Liked
Never
" 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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Change
Think
" 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 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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