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Family Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

24 Family quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer often weaves humor with earnestness, and his 24 family excerpts are no exception. He pulls at the threads of memory and expectation, exposing the quirks that make familial bonds both fragile and resilient. Expect a mix of wit and tenderness as you read on.

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Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

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“To accept the factory farm —to feed the food it produces to my family, to support it with my money —would make…

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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.

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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…

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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…

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“But I do not do these things because we are a family. I do them because they are common decencies. That is…

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“And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to…

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We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists,…

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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our…

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“Given that eating animals is in absolutely no way necessary for my family — unlike some in the world, we have easy…

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“But I do not do these things because we are family. I do them because they are common decencies. That is an…

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“We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families, and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists,…

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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…

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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…

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“When I was nine, I had a babysitter who didn't want to hurt anything. She put it just like that when I…

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(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You…

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“Mother is a humble woman. Very, very humble. She toils at a small café one hour distance from our home. She presents…

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“I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my mother's mother. Your father's mother's…

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Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the…

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The dissolution of a family, global crisis creates the massive fracture, not only in the Middle East but between America and Israel,…

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“unless you obtain your food in secret and eat it in the closet, you don’t eat alone. We eat as sons and…

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I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time…

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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families,…

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