"I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves."

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August Strindberg

#Dog Quotes #Courage Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.”
“See the effect of commercial intercourse.”
“Someone who wants to attain enlightenment must be brave. He must rush into the crowd of enemies with a dagger. In the practice of Zen, enemies are our delusive thoughts and passions.”
“Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.”

Source : Isaac Barrow (1859). “The theological works: In 9 vols. Ed. ... by Alexander Napier”, p.185
“It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.”
“I'm having to protect myself. How do you protect your heart and cover everything? When you don't want to look people in the eye and you're constantly dodging, I fall into it.”
“People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.”
“I was minding my own business, really, and then all of a sudden, Hollywood approached me.”

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