"Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit,……" — Jonathan Safran Foer
"Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity."
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526 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer has 526 quotes on this site.
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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We…
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the…
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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;…
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are…
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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…
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Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to…
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Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the…
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would…
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that…
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Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or…
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More Craving Quotes
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no…
— Felix Adler
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The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.
— Bill Bryson
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Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar…
— John Jay Chapman
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I love healthy stuff and junk an equal amount. Whatever I'm craving, I go for it. I'm never trying to…
— Kelly Clarkson
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[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of…
— John Climacus
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All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for…
— Eckhart Tolle
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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work…
— H.G. Wells
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Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows…
— William James
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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel…
— Robert Collier
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The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we…
— Andrew Weil
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I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality…
— Og Mandino
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