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Wolf Blitzer had once again relieved the horrible tension of his purgatorial beard--neither a beard nor not a beard--with yet another new pair of glasses.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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On average, Americans eat the equivalent of 21,000 entire animals in a lifetime--one
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I used to be an atheist, which means I didn't believe in things that couldn't be observed. I believed that once you're dead, you're dead forever, and you don't feel anything, and you don't even dream. It's not that I believe in things that can't be observed now, because I don't. It's that I believe that things are extremely complicated.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Hoe destructief moet een culinaire voorkeur zijn, willen we besluiten iets anders te eten?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I spent my life learning how to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I'm telling you all of this because I'll never be your father, and you will always be my child.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Het keuze-geobsedeerde Westen geeft de mens die anders wil eten meer ruimte dan elke andere cultuur ooit heeft gedaan, maar de ironie wil dat de volstrekt niet kieskeurige omnivoor - 'ik vind alles best, ik eet alles' - maatschappelijk bewuster kan lijken dan de mens die op een manier probeert te eten die goed is voor de samenleving. De keuze voor een bepaald soort voedsel wordt door allerlei factoren bepaald, maar de rede (en zelfs het bew..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Als ik ergens vertel dat ik vegetarier ben, word ik bijna altijd gewezen op een inconsequentie of probeert men een zwak punt te ontdekken in een bewering die ik nooit heb gedaan. (Ik heb vaak het idee dat mijn vegetarische levenswijze voor zulke mensen belangrijker is dan voor mij.)
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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We hebben oorlog gevoerd, of eigenlijk hebben we een oorlog laten voeren, tegen alle dieren die we eten. Deze oorlog is nieuw en heeft een naam: bio-industrie. De bio-industrie beschouwt de natuur als een obstakel dat overwonnen moet worden.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Antropocentrisme: de mens staat bovenaan in de evolutie, we zijn een geschikte maatstaf om het leven van andere dieren tegen af te zetten en de rechtmatige bezitter van al wat leeft.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Wat gebeurt er met alle mannelijke kuikens van legkippen? Als de mens ze niet heeft aangepast voor de vleesproductie en de natuur ze overduidelijk niet heeft gemaakt om eieren te leggen, welke functie hebben ze dan? Ze hebben geen functie. Daarom worden alle haantjes - de helft van alle legkippen die ter wereld komen; meer dan 250 miljoen kuikens per jaar - vernietigd. De meeste haantjes worden vernietigd door ze via een buizenstelsel naar ..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Kalkoenen leggen tegenwoordig hondertwintig eieren per jaar en kippen meer dan driehonderd. Dat is twee tot drie keer zo veel als in de natuur.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Seventig tot negentig procent van de kippen in de winkel heeft een andere potentieel dodelijke ziektekiem onder de leden, de campylobacter. De kippen worden vaak door een chloorbad gehaald om slijk, stank en bacterien weg te spoelen. Grote kans dat het de consument opvalt dat hun kip niet helemaal smaakt zoals het hoort - hoe lekker kan een met medicijnen volgepropte, van ziektes vergeven en met stront overdekte vogel in vredesnaam smaken? ..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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In zijn eentje doodt Smithfield (Amerika's grootste producent van varkensvlees) jaarlijks meer varkens dan het gezamelijke inwonertal van New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Detroit, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Columbus, Austin, Forth Worth en Memphis - ongeveer 31 miljoen dieren.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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She was a prism through with sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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You could bury people one hundred floors down, and a whole dead world could be underneath the living one.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there,
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Non e vero" le dissi, ignorando quali sarebbero state le successive parole a uscirmi dalla bocca, ma desiderando che fossero mie, desiderandolo piu di quanto avessi mai desiderato che qualcosa esprimesse il centro di me stesso, e che fosse compresa. "Stavo venendo a trovarti." Le dissi: "Sono venuto a casa tua ogni giorno negli ultimi sei giorni. Non so perche, ma avevo bisogno di rivederti." Lei taceva, mi ero coperto di ridicolo, non c'e ..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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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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At first it made me angry, but then it made me sad, and then it made me so grateful, and then it made me angry again, and I went through these feelings hundreds of times, stopping on each for only a moment and then moving to the next.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right...By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his lon..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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We are traumatized people. And nothing else has trauma's power to deform the mind and heart.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Use humor as aggressively as chemo. Laugh until your hair falls out. There is nothing that can't be played for a laugh.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I could write more, but that is all that matters.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Als we op een dag een levensvorm tegenkomen die machtiger en intelligenter is dan wij zelf, en die soort zou ons zien zoals wij vissen zien, wat zouden we dan als argument aanvoeren om niet te worden opgegeten?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Nothing goes away. Not on its own. You deal with it, or it deals with you.
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moving-on-quotes
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world
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struggles
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Did you manufacture any Z's?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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A group of boys lumbered down the halls of Adas Israel, laughing, punching, blood rushing from developing brains to developing genitals and back again in the zero-sum game of puberty.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Its so painful to think, and tell me what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever get me?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Just how common do such savageries have to be for a decent person to be unable to overlook them? If you knew that one in one thousand food animals suffered actions like those described above, would you continue to eat animals? One in one hundred? One in ten?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Sitting with her now, rehearsing the horrible conversation, Jacob wondered if maybe, all those years, he had misunderstood the spaces surrounding Julia: her quiet, her steps back. Maybe they weren't buffers of defense, but of the most extreme humility, the purest generosity. What if she wasn't withdrawing, but beckoning? Or both at the same time? Withdrawing and beckoning? And more to the point: making a world for their children, even for J..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Mr. Black started singing a song in some weird language, which I guess was Philippinish.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The kids silenced. "OK,"' Julia said. "Well, as you probably know, I'm Sam's mom. He told me not to make a big deal, so I'll keep this to the essentials. First, I want to let you all know how totally psyched I am to be here with you." Sam closed his eyes, willing himself to unlearn object permanence."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The more I found, the less I understood.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him.
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childhood
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Could we kiss for a little bit? ... Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with kips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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They hadn't forgotten but accommodated... So nothing was done. No decisions were made... They waited like fools, they sat on their hands like fools, and spoke, like fools... They waited to die, and we cannot blame them, because we would do the same, we do do the same.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Is God sad? He would have to exist to be sad, wouldn't He? I know, she said, giving his shoulder a little slap. That's why I was asking, so I might finally know if you believed! Well, let me leave it at this: if God does exist, He would have a great deal to be sad about. And if He doesn't exist, then that too would make Him quite sad, I imagine. So to answer your question, God must be sad.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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If you want to know who protects you from the people that take without asking, it is the police. If you want to know who protects you from the police, it is the people who take without asking. And very often they are the same people.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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This is the lesson we learned from everything that happened -- there is no God. It took all of the hidden faces for Him to prove this to us." "What if it was a challenge of your faith?" I said. "I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this." "What if it was not in His power?" "I could not believe in a God that could not stop what happened." "What if it was man and not God that did all of this?" "I do not believe in man,..
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religion
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Mom?" "Yes." "Nothing." "What is it, baby?" "Well it's just that wouldn't it be great if mattresses had spaces for your arm, so that when you rolled onto your side, you could fit just right?" "That would be nice." "And good for your back, probably, because it would let your spine be straight, which I know is important." "That is important." "Also, it would make snuggling easier. You know how that arm constantly gets in the way?" "I do." "An..
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