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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. My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
  • 2. I think I'm past the age of getting lost.
  • 3. Here's a proposal offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States whether born here or abroad should get to be a citizen until age 18 at which time each such resident has to take a test.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.
  • 2. I had a great time with John Duigan he's pretty amazing.
  • 3. It's odd because I used to see pictures on telly or wherever of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something it maybe isn't what you thought it was.

3 Anger

  • 1. If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger or in an otherwise offensive manner or by momentarily resigning the game or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire the game must be scored against him.
  • 2. I'm generally quite an angry person and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.
  • 3. He who angers you conquers you.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons and marry the right person.
  • 2. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.
  • 3. I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw the worse things got for me musically.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
  • 2. Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
  • 3. The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
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