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
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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
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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
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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…
Act
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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
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Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
Fearless
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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
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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
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
Becoming
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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
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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
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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
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
From
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.
Book
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Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?
Crudest
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