Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

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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… Communities
• August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its… August
• SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough… Anxiety
• 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… Act
• Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why you shouldn't do… Capable
• Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing Fearless
• I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter… All
• Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate… Agriculture
• When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own. Becoming
• How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured… Animal
• The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other… Came
• Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no… Another Person
• Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. From
• Language is never fully trustworthy, but when it comes to eating animals, words are as often used to misdirect and camouflage as they are to… Actually Talking
• We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.… Almost Impossibly
• We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present,… Along
• We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes. Creatures
• We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic… Animal
• I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. Book
• Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses? Crudest

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