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Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Stories
Food
Values
History

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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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Can’t you even tell me if I’m on the right track? Buckminster purred, and Dad shrugged his shoulders again. But if you don’t tell me anything, how can I ever be right? He circled something in an article and said, Another way of looking at it would be, how could you ever be wrong?
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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