Famous Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.
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Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.
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Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.
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The best books are the ones that ask the most questions.
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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 habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.
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Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now.
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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.
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The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.
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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.
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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.
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