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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. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

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" We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit. "

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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 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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" I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something. "

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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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" 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've never particularly liked bankers. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration. "

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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 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 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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" Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look? "

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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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" It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to. "

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" The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed. "

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" I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain. "

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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 need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write. "

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

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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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" 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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" Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes. "

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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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