"Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.“

-Jonathan Safran Foer

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"We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts."

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"Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?"

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"Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting."

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"I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things."

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"Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car."

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"Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity."

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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."

-Woody Allen

"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."

-Ernst Fischer

"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."

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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."

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