"My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

#Children Quotes #Reality Quotes #Wife Quotes

“It's fun to see how other artists adapt my work.”
“The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.”

Source : "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by by Diogenes Laërtius, Book 1: The Seven Sages, 6, 1925.
“Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.”
“Mancini is lucky. He has an owner [Sheikh Mansour] who speaks little and asks only: "What do you need?"”
“Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.”
“I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.”
“The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to propagation of even the most blatant lies. ... Subjective reason conforms to anything.”

Source : Max Horkheimer (2004). “EPZ Eclipse of Reason”, p.17, A&C Black
“One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when your pint-to-toilet cycle gets synchronised with a complete stranger.”

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