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- As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not.
- I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.
- It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.
- 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…
- People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite…
- I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that…
- In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and…
- 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…
- 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…
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