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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. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
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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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" Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. "
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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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" The best books are the ones that ask the most questions. "
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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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" There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with. "
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" 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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" Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness? "
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" There is no greater gift than time. "
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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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" Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't. "
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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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" 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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" Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud. "
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" For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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