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

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

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Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist. . .we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened.
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I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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Grandfather informs me that is not possible.
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But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.
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It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: Do you like me?
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But I dig Negroes. I dig them all the way.
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We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
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Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone
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And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I know I won't be able to send, no matter how hard I try and how much I want to. How did that boy making love behind that shed become this man writing this letter at this table?
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I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.
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She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.
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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.
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...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope.
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