Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes & Sayings
89 most famous Jonathan Safran Foer quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 47 year old American writer born on Feb 21, 1977.
“Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.”
“Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.”
“People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.”
“There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.”
“Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.”
“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.”
“Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.”
“People don't care enough. They don't get worked up enough. They don't get angry enough. They don't get passionate enough. I'd rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.”
“If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.”
“There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.”
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