"Your pet is not your friend. It is your hostage."

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Source : Scott Dikkers (2009). “You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day”, p.189, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Scott Dikkers

#Pet Quotes #Hostage Quotes

“Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.”
“Those who turn things around by themselves do not rejoice at gain or grieve over loss; the whole world is the range they roam. Those who are themselves used by things hate it when events go against them and love it when they go their way; the slightest thing can create binding entanglements.”
“I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.”
“I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has already been through an extra filter, another consciousness, in the guise of the translator. Some of my favorite writers who have written in English were doing so without English being their first language, so there's a sense of distance or of distortion there, too. Conrad. Nabokov. These writers were employing English in interesting ways.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them, ... I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.”

Source : The Olympian, October 04, 2005.
“Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym.”
“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”

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