"A cat is, by and large, sophisticated and complex, and capable of creating three-act plays around any single piece of action."

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Source : Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

Gladys Taber

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“Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.”
“A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.”
“I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final thing, it's the first thing, which may just be the suggestive, vague identification of something that you have to come back to and rewrite.”

Source : "An Interview with M. H. Abrams by Sharon Hamilton". People's Education, March 10, 2007.
“I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.”
“Loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose - slough off, like a moulting snake. Losing and losing again, is the very basis of the process, til all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence.”
“I can tell you from experience that God's help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.”
“The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.”
“Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.”

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