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Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then only a few feet away in the cookbook section just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

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Jonathan Safran Foer
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Category: Relationship

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.
  • 2. Age does not protect you from love. But love to some extent protects you from age.
  • 3. The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Well Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
  • 2. Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.
  • 3. So when I go home sometimes even when I had an amazing game I always think about what I missed.

3 Anger

  • 1. Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust greed and anger.
  • 2. All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.
  • 3. I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated and I can't be part of that.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Next month I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.
  • 2. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 3. Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was you could have asked the local florist – because every day Dad gave Mom a rose which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died – she went looking for him because that morning there was no rose.

5 Architecture

  • 1. It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
  • 2. The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.
  • 3. If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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