". . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do."

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Source : John Grogan (2008). “Marley & Me tie-in: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog”, William Morrow Paperbacks

John Grogan

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“There are a lot of good memories, and because I was injured, during the rehab, I met my wife. The tennis was very good but the injuries were good for something too”
“When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.”
“The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.”
“Personally, I think Julian Assange is a hero.”
“The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.”
“Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.”

Source : "Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works". Book by Auguste Rodin, p. 61-63, 1905.
“I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.”
“An eye for an eye makes us all blind.”

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