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...
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....
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.
Wouldn’t it be easier if we just named all the cats Password?
Do what is difficult because it is difficult. Do what will cost you the most. Who
Death the only god who must come when he’s called
If we could talk to animals, goes the song.Meaning, if they could talk to us.But of course that would ruin everything.
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)
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...
Here is what I learned: Simone Weil was right. Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.
It’s not uncommon to wish to have known what a person you’ve come to love was like before you met them. It hurts, almost, not to have known what a beloved was like as a child. I have felt this way abo...
Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does more than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read. Rebecca West.
Writing poetry is like prayer, and prayer isn’t something you have to share with other people.
Another memory. She walks into the kitchen, sits down at the kitchen counter with me, and says, I just got a very interesting phone call. It was some guy who said he was doing a survey for the Maidenf...
Whenever he saw his books in a store, he felt like he’d gotten away with something, said John Updike. Who also expressed the opinion that a nice person wouldn’t become a writer. The problem of self-do...
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.
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