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

" To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

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" I've never particularly liked bankers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong. "

" 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. "

" There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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. "

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

" Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else. "

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