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I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.

I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Vegetarianism, Choices, Made
Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2009.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Artist, Cages, Beckett

The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to ethanol when almost a billion people are starving. So what kind of crime is animal agriculture, which uses 756 million tons of grain and corn per year, much more than enough to adequately feed the 1.4 billion human who are living in dire poverty?

Jonathan Safran Foer
Animal, Years, Agriculture
"Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2009.

She was not crying Which surprised me very much But I understand now That she had found places For her melancholy That were behind more masks Than only her eyes

Jonathan Safran Foer
Eye, Cry, Melancholy
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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
Reading, People, Accomplishment

It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Knows, Hard
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.154, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Exercise, Caring, Animal
"Jonathan Safran Foer on the Morality of Vegetarianism". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.theatlantic.com. December 11, 2009.

There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Block, Writing, Two

I felt it very moving to feel his touch, and to remember that hands can also show love.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Moving, Hands, Remember

Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Quality, Meat, Eating

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, Appreciate, Meat
"Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Identity, Culture, Habit
"Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Want, Said
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Wall, Home, Anna
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Bored, Waiting, Darkness

Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Return, Heard
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.156, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Want, I Can, Loses
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

As long as I am thinking, I am alive.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Thinking, Long, Alive

I believed him. I was not stupid. I was his wife.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Stupid, Wife, Not Stupid
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Children, Missing, Speak
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

So many visitors came to rub and kiss different parts of him for the fulfillment of their various wishes that his entire body had to be rebronzed every month. He was a changing god, destroyed and recreated by his believers, destroyed and recreated by their belief... Those who prayed came to believe less and less in the god of their creation and more and more in their belief.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Believe, Kissing, Wish
"Everything Is Illuminated". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, April 16, 2002.

Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Sophisticated, Chickens, Deals
Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.84, Penguin UK

Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals. Continuing his work, we call stupid people bird-brained, cowardly people chickens, fools turkeys. Are these the best names we have to offer? If we can revise the notion of women coming from a rib, can’t we revise our categorizations of the animals that, draped with barbecue sauce, end up as the ribs on our dinner plates — or for that matter, the KFC in our hands?

Jonathan Safran Foer
Stupid, Animal, Thinking
"Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Animal, Feet, Might
"Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.

And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to find an answer for every why — Why do we do this? Why don’t we do that? — and often there isn’t a good one. So you say, simply, because. Or you tell a story that you know isn’t true. And whether or not your face reddens, you blush. The shame of parenthood — which is a good shame — is that we want our children to be more whole than we are, to have satisfactory answers.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Children, Hypocrisy, Parent
"Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

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