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Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer
American Writer
Born: Feb 21, 1977
About People Think Time World You
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It's possible to make things that aren't just money-makers. Something wonderful for its own sake. Jonathan Safran Foer
Wonderful Own Possible Something Make Sake Just Things
When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think of as burdensome are actually the things that make us more human. Jonathan Safran Foer
You Book Remember Think More Remembers Reminds Make Burdensome May Human Us Body Many Actually Things
As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not. Jonathan Safran Foer
Nothing Older Think Other About More Protecting Talked Convinced Each Grown
I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain. Jonathan Safran Foer
Myself Definitions See Someone Constrain Never Makes Done Anything Who Things
Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes. Jonathan Safran Foer
People World Few Potatoes Colossal Feeding Demand Task Few People Who Meat Billions Sufficiently Appreciate
Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange. Jonathan Safran Foer
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That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don't have time for all that; I don't want to get into it. Jonathan Safran Foer
Time You Nice About Neurotic Selective Vegetarian Get Being Want Personally Nice Thing Thing
Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less. Jonathan Safran Foer
Party Living Negotiating Claimed Table More Only Compromise Never Had Fixed Size While Capable Planet Requires Less
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. Jonathan Safran Foer
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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. Jonathan Safran Foer
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When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not. Jonathan Safran Foer
You Change Cast Absolute Vegetarian Almost Always Meat
If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well. Jonathan Safran Foer
Hunt Hunting Would Thrill Well Were Camera Just Even
When we talk about protecting our right to have guns, we are talking about protecting our right to shoot bullets. So what is it that's so important to shoot at? Jonathan Safran Foer
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In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words. Jonathan Safran Foer
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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. Jonathan Safran Foer
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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. Jonathan Safran Foer
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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
Experience Words Scare Vivid More Also Comfort Making Capable Us Organizing
I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things. Jonathan Safran Foer
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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 values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better. Jonathan Safran Foer
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I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write. Jonathan Safran Foer
Write Office Where Place Need
The best books are the ones that ask the most questions. Jonathan Safran Foer
Best Books Most Questions Ask
It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth. Jonathan Safran Foer
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. Jonathan Safran Foer
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