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Most people behave badly when wounded. If you can remember the wounds, it is far more possible to forgive the behavior.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Today, it isn't unusual for meat to travel almost halfway around the globe to reach your supermarket. The average distance our meat travels hovers arounf fifteen hundred miles.
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food-for-thought
meat
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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A powerful wind swept through the shtetl, making it whistle. Those studying obscure texts in dimly lit rooms looked up. Lovers making amends and promises, amendments and excuses, fell silent.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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We go on killing each other to no purpose! It is war waged by humanity against humanity, and it will only end when there's no one left to fight!
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I' was the last word I was able to speak aloud. I wanted to pull the thread, unravel the scarf of my silence and start again from the beginning, but instead I said, 'I.' I know I'm not alone in this disease, you hear the old people in the street and some of them are moaning, "Ay yay yay," but some of them are clinging to their last word, 'I,' they're saying, because they're desperate, it's not a complaint it's a prayer, and then I lost 'I' ..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I knew that we were sharing something with our eyes, but I didn't know what, and I didn't know if it mattered.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Lo que olvidamos de los animales es lo que empezamos a olvidar de nosotros mismos.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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He shrugged his shoulders, like he had no idea what I was talking about. I loved that.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I'm not mad at you," she said. "Not even a little?" "No." "Do you still love me?" It didn't seem like the perfect time to mention that I had already made copies of the key for the deliverer from Pizza Hut, and the UPS person, and, also the nice guys from Greenpeace, so they could leave me articles on manatees and other animals that are going extinct when Stan is getting coffee. "I've never loved you more."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Home is the place with the most rules.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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La verguenza es la sensacion que nos invade cuando olvidamos casi por completo, pero no del todo, las expectativas sociales y nuestras obligaciones para con los otros, a cambio de nuestra satisfaccion inmediata.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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When I learned about this, I was told that it was "instinct." ("Instinct" continues to be the explanation of choice whenever animal behavior implies too much intelligence.) Instinct, though, wouldn't go very far in explaining how pigeons use human transportation routes to navigate. Pigeons follow highways and take particular exits, likely following many of the same landmarks as the humans driving below."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The horse at the bottom of the river, shrouded by the sunken night sky, closed its heavy eyes. The prehistoric ant in Yankel's ring, which had lain motionless in the honey-colored amber since long before Noah hammered the first plank, hid its head between its many legs, in shame.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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He promised us that everything would be OK. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be OK. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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promises
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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That ghost of a smile fell away and receded and finally faded.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Only a few months into our marriage, we started marking off areas in the apartment as "Nothing Places," in which one could be assured of complete privacy, we agreed that we never would look at the marked-off zones, that they would be nonexistent territories in the apartment in which one could temporarily cease to exist, the first was in the bedroom, by the foot of the bed, we marked it off with red tape on the carpet, and it was just large ..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I thought he had to look for what he was looking for, and realize it no longer existed, or never existed." p. 233"
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Make for yourself a world you can believe in. It sounds simple, I know. But it's not. Listen, there are a million worlds you could make for yourself. Everyone you know has a completely different one--the woman in 5G, that cab driver over there, you. Sure, there are overlaps, but only in the details. Some people make their worlds around what they think reality is like. They convince themselves that they had nothing to do with their worlds' c..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The dining table was covered with platters of food: everything and pumpernickel bagels, everything minibagels, everything flagels, bialys, cream cheese, scallion cream cheese, salmon spread, tofu spread, smoked and pickled fish, pitch-black brownies with white chocolate swirls like square universes, blondies, rugelach, out-of-season hamantaschen (strawberry, prune, and poppy seed), and "salads"--Jews apply the word salad to anything that ca..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to sa..
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vegan
vegetarian
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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77acd40
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Isn't it funny that if God were to reveal and explain Himself, the majority of the world would necessarily be disappointed?
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short-story
the-new-yorker
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Anyone who suggests that there is a perfect symbiosis between the farmers' interest and the animals' is probably trying to sell you something (and it's not made of tofu)
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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It might sound fantastic, but when we bother to look, it's hard to deny that our day-to-day choices shape the world.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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phylosophy
factory-farming
vegetarianism
nonfiction
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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And this is what living next to a waterfall is like, Safran. Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls..
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pain
self-growth
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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33b4a14
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When you're a dad, there's no one above you. If I don't do something that has to be done, who is going to do it?
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fathers
fatherhood
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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For Nicole, my idea of beauty
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dedication
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I couldn't tell what he was feeling, because I couldn't speak the language of his feelings.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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it broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of,
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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There are only so many times that you can utter 'It does not hurt' before it begins to hurt more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I never thought of myself as quiet or much less silent... is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one millions times but never once into it.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Hicbir seyi ozledigin bir seyden daha fazla sevemezsin.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.
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the-human-condition
mistakes
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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3093a4d
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YOU WILL DRINK THE COFFEE UNTIL I CAN SEE MY FACE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE CUP!" I did not mean to roar. "But it's a clay cup." "I DO NOT CARE!" He finished the coffee. "You did not have to finish it," I said, because I could perceive that he was rebuilding the Great Wall of China with shit bricks."
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funny
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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des verstorbenen Philosophen Pinchas T., der in seiner einzigen bedeutenden Abhandlung "An den Staub: vom Menschen bist du, und zum Menschen sollst du werden" argumentierte, es sei theoretisch moglich, das Leben und die Kunst gegeneinander auszutauschen." --
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staub
philosophie
kunst
leben
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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816402a
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What about the teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would become a mouth, and it could whistle pretty melodies, or do Shakespeare, or just crack up with me.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Regarding US government recommendations that tend to encourage dairy consumption in the name of preventing osteoporosis, Nestle notes that in parts of the world where milk is not a staple of the diet, people often have less osteoporosis and fewer bone fractures than Americans do. The highest rates of osteoporosis are seen in countries where people consume the most dairy foods.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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9791a67
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Thomas! What are you doing!" and I gestured, "I thought this was Nothing," covering myself with one of my daybooks ,and she said, "It's Something!"
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someting
undressing
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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De Verenigde Naties vatten de milieueffecten van de vleesindustrie als volgt samen: Het fokken van dieren voor de voedselproductie (ongeacht of dat in de bio-industrie of op traditionele wijze gebeurt) 'is een van de drie belangrijkste oorzaken van de meest bedreigende milieuproblemen, op elke schaal, lokaal of wereldwijd. De veeteelt zou een van de belangrijkste aandachtspunten moeten zijn als het gaat om problemen als verschraling, klimaa..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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And instead of singing in the shower I would write out the lyrics of my favorite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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58d33f7
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she saw through the shell of me into the center of me ... She went home with her father, the center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I was engaged to Fitzgerald's sister!" "Who's Fitzgerald?" "Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, my boy! A Great Author! A Great Author!" "Oops." "I used to sit on her porch and talk to her father while she powdered her nose upstairs! Her father and I had the most lively conversations! He was a Great Man, like Winston Churchill was a Great Man!" I decided it would be better to Google Winston Churchill when I got home, instead of mentioning that I ..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |