Jonathan Safran Foer | food
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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Jonathan Safran Foer | fear
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall – what’s going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.
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Jonathan Safran Foer | family
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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Jonathan Safran Foer | family
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.
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Jonathan Safran Foer | family
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.
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Jonathan Safran Foer | faith
Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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Jonathan Safran Foer | experience
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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Jonathan Safran Foer | change
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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Jonathan Safran Foer | change
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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Jonathan Safran Foer | change
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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