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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. Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.
  • 2. Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
  • 3. You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

2 Amazing

  • 1. The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.
  • 2. Good acting is good acting however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted – he's learned technique by working with people early on.
  • 3. When it's over I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms.

3 Anger

  • 1. Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.
  • 2. Speak the truth do not yield to anger give if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
  • 3. Be modest humble simple. Control your anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.
  • 2. Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.
  • 3. I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
  • 2. Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
  • 3. I left science then I went into art but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
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