She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence. Jonathan Safran Foer More Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer More Quotes From Jonathan Safran Foer Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it. Jonathan Safran Foer return heard Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values. Jonathan Safran Foer values stories We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against. Jonathan Safran Foer kind persons want Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children? Jonathan Safran Foer baseball animal children It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong? Jonathan Safran Foer lonely wonder people The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible. Jonathan Safran Foer self editing writing I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces. Jonathan Safran Foer bars space writing Mom said, "His spirit is there," and that made me really angry. I told her, "Dad didn't have a spirit! He had cells!" "His memory is there." "His memory is here," I said, pointing at my head. "Dad had a spirit," she said, like she was rewinding a bit in our conversation. I told her, "He had cells, and now they're on rooftops, and in the river, and in the lungs of millions of people around New York, who breathe him every time they speak! Jonathan Safran Foer dad mom new-york Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. This is very silly. Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it woudln't be the most reasonable way to understand why you should or shouldn't do it. Jonathan Safran Foer hunting silly animal Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art. Jonathan Safran Foer criticism writing art We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be an environmentalist on a daily basis if you are not thinking about the number one cause of global warming or one of the top two or three causes of all other environmental problems? Does it mean you are necessarily someone who doesn't care about the environment? Obviously not, but it might mean you have a blind spot for something big. Jonathan Safran Foer blind-spots mean thinking And the general shot my sister. I could not look at her, but I remember the sound of when she hit the ground. I hear that sound when things hit the ground still. Anything.' If I could, I would make it so nothing ever hit the ground again. Jonathan Safran Foer sound remember looks Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else. Jonathan Safran Foer self doubt profound I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances. Jonathan Safran Foer distance loneliness book 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. Jonathan Safran Foer car decision play People hurt each other. That's what people do. Jonathan Safran Foer hurt people What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through a little speaker. [...] I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time. Jonathan Safran Foer what-if heart littles I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you. Jonathan Safran Foer thinking 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 couple simple animal Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions. Jonathan Safran Foer persons action doe
