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" Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look? "
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Her
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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. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Know
Food
Done
" Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
World
Meat
People
" I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering what's nice about the physicality of them. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Two
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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. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Living
Size
Compromise
" 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. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Thought
Long
Never
" Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Books
Slow
Fast
" When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Change
You
Meat
" I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Want
Talk
Way
" If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Camera
Hunting
Just
" 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
Best
History
Family
" It's possible to make things that aren't just money-makers. Something wonderful for its own sake. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Possible
Just
Own
" The best books are the ones that ask the most questions. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Most
Ask
Best
" 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
" 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. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Yourself
People
World
" 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. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Touch
Strange
Find
" 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
Us
Way
Just
" I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Family
Time
Reading
" We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Will
Someone
Steps
" 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. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Two
Way
Marble
" 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
Guns
Defend
Without
" 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. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Simple
Animals
Great
" These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Day
Daily
Choices
" 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. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Driver
Amazon
Apple
" 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
Kind
Religion
Makes
" Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Craving
Food
Identity
" 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. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Think
More
Older
" It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
People
Possible
Us
" 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
Experience
Comfort
Words
" To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Remember
Me
Lose
" Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square? "
Jonathan Safran Foer
Square
Times Square
Who