02-10-2022, 10:16 AM
"Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard."
"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that dogs think humans are nuts."
"Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he doesn't admire them. He turns his steps rather than disturb an earnest caterpillar. His greatest fear is that someone will point out a rabbit and suggest that he chase it. This is a dog of peace and tranquillity."
“If by force you make a creature live & work like a beast, you must think of him as a beast, else empathy would drive you mad. Once you have classified him in your mind, your feelings are safe.
And if your heart has human vestiges of courage & anger, which in a man are virtues, then you have fear of a dangerous beast, & since your heart has intelligence & inventiveness, & the ability to conceal them, you live with terror. Then you must crush his manlike tendencies & make of him the docile beast you want. And if you can teach your child from the beginning about the beast, he will not share your bewilderment.”
John Steinbeck
"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that dogs think humans are nuts."
"Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he doesn't admire them. He turns his steps rather than disturb an earnest caterpillar. His greatest fear is that someone will point out a rabbit and suggest that he chase it. This is a dog of peace and tranquillity."
“If by force you make a creature live & work like a beast, you must think of him as a beast, else empathy would drive you mad. Once you have classified him in your mind, your feelings are safe.
And if your heart has human vestiges of courage & anger, which in a man are virtues, then you have fear of a dangerous beast, & since your heart has intelligence & inventiveness, & the ability to conceal them, you live with terror. Then you must crush his manlike tendencies & make of him the docile beast you want. And if you can teach your child from the beginning about the beast, he will not share your bewilderment.”
John Steinbeck
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)