He has to forget you. He has to forget you and fall in love with me. That's what has to happen.
I believe the intensity of the pity you feel for an animal has to do with how it evokes pity for yourself.... Innocence is something we humans pass through and leave behind, unable to return. But anim...
Is it true that the literary world is mined with hatred, a battlefield rimmed with snipers where jealousies and rivalries are always being played out? asked the NPR interviewer of the distinguished au...
They don't want to see me lose my home. They want me to come to my senses before it's too late. I need a better way to cope with my feelings of loss and guilt. I need bereavement therapy. Here are som...
Who doesn't know that the dog is the epitome of devotion? But it's this devotion to humans, so instinctual that it's given freely even to persons who are unworthy of it, that has made me prefer cats....
Do what is difficult because it is difficult. Do what will cost you the most. Who
I like that, well before T.S. Eliot expressed himself on the matter, Samuel Butler stated that the severest test of the imagination was naming a cat.
I like that the Aborigines say dogs make people human
What we miss - what we lose and what we mourn - isn't it this that makes us who, deep down, we truly are.
If we could talk to animals, goes the song.Meaning, if they could talk to us.But of course that would ruin everything.
What we miss - what we lose and what we mourn - isn't it this that makes us who, deep down, we truly are. To say nothing of what we wanted in life but never got to have.
Death the only god who must come when he’s called
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.
Idyllic is how Kundera describes human relationships with animals. Idyllic because animals were not expelled with us from Paradise. There they remain, untroubled by such complications as the separatio...
In a book I am reading the author talks about word people versus fist people. As if words could not also be fists. Aren't often fists.
Wouldn’t it be easier if we just named all the cats Password?
She indulged his long-winded Tolstoy bashing (he saw Tolstoy, in no way equal to Dostoevsky, as a kind of highbrow Margaret Mitchell who had helped prepare the way for socialist realism)
Socrates to Phaedrus: I’m a lover of learning, and trees and open country won’t teach me anything.)
Here is what I learned: Simone Weil was right. Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.
Writing poetry is like prayer, and prayer isn’t something you have to share with other people.
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