American - Writer | February 21, 1977 -
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
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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.
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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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In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly.
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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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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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I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering what's nice about the physicality of them.
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Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.
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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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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.
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It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.
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