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" Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness? "
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. "
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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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" 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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" In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly. "
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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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Want
Talk
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" I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain. "
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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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" Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange. "
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Find
" Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't. "
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Art
Art Forms
" As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention. "
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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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Quality
Get
Meat
" 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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" 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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Know
Food
Done
" It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get. "
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" Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more. "
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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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" What the world does not need is a Haggadah that pats itself on the back. It needs a Haggadah that gets out of the way, that starts a conversation and gets out of the way. "
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Conversation
World
Way
" All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
You
Great
Never
" 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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Culture
Obsession
Price
" 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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" 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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Thought
Long
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" I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me. "
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Disappointment
Funny
Me
" People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down. "
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" 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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Eyes
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" There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with. "
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Something
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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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Debate
World
Now
" 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. "
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Choices
Time
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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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Stop
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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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" Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look? "
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Her