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The best reason to think that there could be a better future is the fact that we know just how bad the future could be.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Remembering and forgetting are part of the same mental process. To write down one detail of an event is to not write down another (unless you keep writing forever).
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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In America, where the USDA's interpretation of the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act exempts chicken slaughter, the voltage is kept low -- about one-tenth the level necessary to render the animals unconscious. After it has traveled through the bath, a paralyzed bird's eyes might still move. Sometimes the birds will have enough control of their bodies to slowly open their beaks, as though attempting to scream. The next stop on the line for the..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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she'd done enough residential architecture to know that the desire to wring out a few more drips of happiness almost always destroyed the happiness you were so lucky to have, and so foolish never to acknowledge. It happens every time: a forty-thousand-dollar kitchen remodel becomes a seventy-five-thousand-dollar kitchen remodel (because everyone comes to believe that small differences make big differences), becomes a new exit to the garden ..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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It's not a horrible word! He told me, putting a Cambodian mask on his face , But it's filled with a lot of horrible people!
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Embarrassment is the Parmalat of emotions.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The end of the world has come often, and continues to often come. Unforgiving, unrelenting, bringing darkness upon darkness, the end of the world is something we have become well acquainted with, habitualized, made into a ritual. It is our religion to try to forget it in its absence, make peace with it when it is undeniable, and return its embrace when it finally comes for us, as it always does.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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why wouldn't I eat a dog I'd never met? Or more to the point, what justification might I have for sparing dogs but eating other animals?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Mencils?" "Pencils for men."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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No podemos alegar ignorancia, solo indiferencia. Los que vivimos hoy sabemos mas. Tenemos la oportunidad y la responsabilidad que nos da vivir en un momento en que la critica hacia las granjas industriales ha llegado a la conciencia publica. Somos aquellos a quienes se nos preguntara, con toda la justicia del mundo: ?Que hiciste cuando te enteraste de lo que implica comer animales?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The average distance our meat travels hovers around fifteen hundred miles. That's like me driving from Brooklyn to the Texas Panhandle for lunch.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The very genetics of chickens, along with their feed and environment, were now intensively manipulated to produce either excessive amounts of eggs (layers) or flesh, especially breasts (broilers). From 1935 to 1995, the average weight of "broilers" increased by 65 percent, while their time-to-market dropped 60 percent and their feed requirements dropped 57 percent. To gain a sense of the radicalness of this change, imagine human children gr..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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How much do I value creating a socially comfortable situation, and how much do I value acting socially responsible?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The ground is still filled iwth rings, and money, and pictures, and Jewish things. I was only able to find a few of them, but they fill the earth." The hero did not ask me once what she was saying. I am not certain if he knew what she was saying, or if he knew not to inquire."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Sure, you could say that people should just eat less meat, but I've got news for you: people don't want to eat less meat. You can be like PETA and pretend that the world is going to wake up tomorrow and realize that they love animals and don't want to eat them anymore, but history has shown that people are perfectly capable of loving animals and eating them. It's childish, and I would even say immoral, to fantasize about a vegetarian world ..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Ia o mnogom khotela pogovorit'. No znala, chto emu budet bol'no. Poetomu ia zaryla eto v sebe - pust' mne budet bol'no.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Jacob didn't want to coerce or be coerced, but what was he supposed to do? Sit on his hands waiting for his grandfather to shatter his hip and die in a hospital room as every abandoned old person is destined to do?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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But not even to save your life?" "If nothing matters, there's nothing to save."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Het eten van dieren raakt ons in het diepste van ons wezen, in onze herinneringen, onze verlangens en onze waarden. Wat het bij ons losmaakt is potentieel controversieel, potentieel bedreigend, potentieel inspirerend, maar altijd betekenisvol.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build dams, but in reality it's because their teeth never stop growing, and if they didn't constantly file them down by cutting through all of those trees, their teeth would start to grow into their own faces, which would kill them. That's how my brain was.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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BILL: That moment of slaughter, for me, in my experience--and I would suspect for most sensitive animal husbandry farmers--that's when you understand destiny and dominion. Because you have brought that animal to its death. It's alive, and you know when that door goes up and it goes in there that it's over. It's the most troubling moment for me, that moment when they are lined up at the slaughterhouse. I don't know quite how to explain it. T..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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As Pollan explains, "Eating industrial meat takes an almost heroic act of not knowing, or, now, forgetting."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Lo so che mi hai chiesto di non cambiare gli sbagli perche hanno un suono buffo, e il buffo e l'unico modo veritiero di raccontare una storia triste.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' but remembers that there are things more important to him than what he is in the mood for at any given moment, and orders something else. Who is the sentimentalist?
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What Jacob really thought: his father was an ignorant, narcissistic, self-righteous pig, too anal-retentive and pussy-whipped to grasp the extreme reaches of his hypocrisy, emotional impotence, and mental infancy. "So we're in agreement, then?" "No." "So we're agreed?" "No." "I'm glad you agree with me." But there were arguments for forgiving him, too. There were. Good ones. Beautiful intentions. Wounds." --
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Time passed, the world exerted itself, and Jacob and Julia began to forget to do things on purpose.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Does it make you sad that we love the kids more than we love each other?" That exact line--those words in that order--had been in the script for months."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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La biodiversita era stata rimpiazziata dall'uniformita genetica, nelle universita i dipartimenti di scienze animali erano diventati dipartimenti di scienze zootecniche, un'attivita economica un tempo dominata dalle donne era ormai passata in mano ai maschi, e pollicoltori esperti erano stati rimpiazzati da dipendenti stipendiati. Non ci fu un colpo di pistola a segnare l'inizio della corsa verso il basso. Il terreno si inclino e tutti scivo..
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If I misuse a corporation's logo, I could potentially be put in jail; if a corporation abuses a billion birds, the law will protect not the birds, but the corporation's right to do what it wants. That is what it looks like when you deny animals rights. It's crazy that the idea of animal rights seems crazy to anyone. We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a hunk of wood and extreme to treat an animal like an an..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The next morning I told Mom I couldn't go to school again. She asked what was wrong. I told her, "The same thing that's always wrong." "You're sick?" "I'm sad." "About Dad?" "About everything." She sat down on the bed next to me, even though I knew she was in a hurry. "What's everything?" I started counting on my fingers: "The meat and dairy products in our refrigerator, fistfights, car accidents, Larry--" "Who's Larry?" "The homeless guy i..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Would I jump or would I burn? I guess I would jump, because then I wouldn't have to feel pain. On the other hand, maybe I would burn, because then I'd at least have a chance to somehow escape, and even if I couldn't, feeling pain is still better than not feeling, isn't it?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I can't live, I've tried and I can't. If that sounds simple, it's simple like a mountain is simple.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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In my dream, all of the collapsed ceilings reformed above us. The fire went back into the bombs, which rose up and into the bellies of planes whose propellers turned backward, like the second hands of the clocks across Dresden, only faster.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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She was incredibly beautiful, with a face like Mom's, which seemed like it was smiling even when she wasn't smiling, and huge boobs.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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That's the difference between heaven and hell! In hell we starve! In heaven we feed each other!
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I'm sure people tell you this constantly, but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary, there would be a picture of you." She cracked up a bit and said, "People never tell me that." "I bet they do." She cracked up a bit more. "They don't." "Then you hang out with the wrong people." "You might be right about that." "Because you're incredibly beautiful."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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It's not even that I trust him not to leave. I know this won't last. I'd rather be me than him. The words are coming so easily. The pages are coming easily. At the end of my dream, Eve put the apple back on the branch. The tree went back into the ground. It became a sapling, which became a seed. God brought together the land and the water, the sky and the water, the water and the water, evening and morning, something and nothing. He..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all. When Dad was tucking me in that night and we were talking about the book, I asked if he could think of a solution to that problem. "Which problem?" "The problem of how relatively insignifica..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families, and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Every time you make a decision about food, Paul pleaded, quoting Berry, "you are farming by proxy."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |