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Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer (born February 21, 1977) is an American novelist. He is best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), and for his non-fiction work Eating Animals (2009). His most recent novel, Here I Am, was published in 2016. He teaches creative writing at New York University.

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Only humans can cry tears.

Cry, Cry Tears, Humans, Tears

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

Kings, Martin, Thanksgiving, Valentine, Way

Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores.

Animal, Athlete, Cancer, Food, Paper, Urinary

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.

Antibiotics, Factory, Health Professionals, Industry, Nontherapeutic, Use

While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

Amount, Noise, Pretending, Sleep, Sleeping

We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames

Burst, Felt, Flames, Like

I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything

Afraid, Losing, Love, Refuse

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

Grandma, Lonely, Mom, Pretty, Think, Told

Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.

Brother, Child, Children, Felt, Flour, Mean

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.

Animal, Based, Couple, Simple, Vegetarian, Weeks

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

Becoming, Flesh, Literally, Meat, Vegetarianism

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

Came, Dog, Horse, Like, Slang, Tired

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

Attention, Page, Pages, Pay, Words, Writer

Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns?

Horns, Jew, Said, See, Seen

Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.

Brain, Invent, Made, Quiet, Thing

Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.

Believe, Decade, Each Day, Faster, Life, Wings

And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or end, and would drown the speaker before he could reach the life raft of the point he was trying to make. It was impossible to remember what one meant, what, after all of the words, was intended.

Drown, Floods, Mind, Point, Remembrance, Tangled

I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits.

Hair, Pie, Talking, Told, Unless

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

Atheist, Mean, Reason, Reasons

My impression is that staying together as a couple does not correspond to the challenges themselves, but whether the very idea of breaking up is an option on the table. If it is, then some people take it. If it's not, then they will keep working at it. You must know people who were terribly suited who make it work. And there are couples who seem perfectly suited that break up. It's a mystery to everyone.

Couple, Ideas, Mystery, People, Terribly, Working

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