"Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd named Old Jock. In 1858, the day after Jock was buried (with almost nobody present to mourn him except his shaggy dog) in the churchyard at Greyfriars Abbey in Edinburgh, Bobby was found sleeping on his master's grave, where he continued to sleep every night for fourteen years."

Source : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1998). “Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs”, Broadway Books

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

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“An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms and rebuild a new world. The problem with cinema today is the dearth of troublemakers. Thereâ€™s not a rabble-rouser in sight. There was still one, but he went beyond troublemaker to court jester. He clobbered the status quo. Thatâ€™s Godard. Weâ€™re fresh out of â€˜bad students.â€™ Youâ€™ll find students masquerading as bad ones, but you wonâ€™t find the real article, because a genuine bad student upends everything.”

Source : "Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinémathèque", www.imdb.com. 2004.
“I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.”

Source : Leslie Feinberg (2010). “Stone Butch Blues”, p.302, ReadHowYouWant.com
“One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.”
“Everything is interconnected. My interest is linked to everyone else's. Our survival and future are linked. Therefore the destruction of your so-called enemy is actually the destruction of your self.”
“This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.”
“A person is not really gone until everyone who knew them is gone.”
“What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?”

Source : Bharati Mukherjee (2007). “The Middleman and Other Stories”, p.194, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“We all live downstream”

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