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" When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
You
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" I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God. "
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" Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting. "
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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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" I will never come around to the idea of an anthropomorphic God. I'm also uncomfortable with the word 'God'... I'm agnostic about the answer and I'm agnostic about the question. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square? "
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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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Done
" 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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History
Family
" 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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Obsession
Price
" All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Focus
" Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world? "
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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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" It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people. "
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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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" There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain. "
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