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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
Values
History
Stories
Food

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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.
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....Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember
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Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes
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Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across.
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We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.
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Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.
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I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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