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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. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square? "
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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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" All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them. "
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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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" Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. "
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" I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
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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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Animals
Great
" 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. "
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Food
Car
" These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long. "
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Daily
Choices
" 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. "
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Antibiotics
More
" Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Comfort
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" People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets. "
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" 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. "
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Time
" 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. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Choices
Time
Perfect
" 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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Home
" 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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" 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. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
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History
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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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Ways
" 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. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Size
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" Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things. "
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" Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look? "
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Why
Her
" 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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Hard
Life
Lines
" 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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" 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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" 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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