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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. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

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" Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing. "

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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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" 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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" Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins. "

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" Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness. "

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

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" When we talk about protecting our right to have guns, we are talking about protecting our right to shoot bullets. So what is it that's so important to shoot at? "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness? "

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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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" Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us. "

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

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

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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. "

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" 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. "

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

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