"You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldnâ€™t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs."

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Source : Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Wasteland”, p.12, Harper Collins

Francesca Lia Block

#Dog Quotes #Eye Quotes #Old Friends Quotes

“It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again.”

Source : Tim Hansel (1989). “What Kids Need Most in a Dad”, Fleming H Revell Company
“A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.”
“One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.”
“Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ.”

Source : Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (1989). “More Classics Revisited”, p.120, New Directions Publishing
“With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.”
“I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.”
“Age will flatten a man.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ed Tom Bell". "No Country for Old Men", www.imdb.com. 2007.
“If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union.”

Source : "Sugamo Diary" by Yoshio Kodama, (p. 30), 1960.

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