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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. You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
  • 2. I wanted to do two things when I was growing up about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over and that is what I am doing now.
  • 3. America doesn't reward people of my age either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by it's amazing if a song can transcend time.
  • 2. It's an amazing thing to say 'I'm beautiful ' without feeling like you're cocky.
  • 3. Mark Conseulos is so amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Every time you get angry you poison your own system.
  • 2. I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.
  • 3. There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

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. See the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it the bitter honesty is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – 'You must live life this way' – and these guys were bored.
  • 3. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union they insist there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which in my book is a good definition for friendship.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
  • 2. Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.
  • 3. I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s and into my 30s I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
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