"A dog is like a personâ€”he needs a job and a family to be what heâ€™s meant to be."

-- Andrew Vachss

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“If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans.”
“In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence, the pride and vanity of human reason enter into and pollute our worship, and the houses that should be of God and for God, alone, where he is to be honored with submissive faith, are too often merely schools of metaphysical and useless distinctions. The nation is sectarian, rather than Christian.”
“Who is content with nothing possesses all things.”
“As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.”
“Anneâ€™s horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queenâ€™s; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joys of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road!”
“The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.”
“Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians . And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population . But oh, how they try.”
“It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things.”

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