"I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so wrong with having those damn kids learn their lessons about mortality from watching Grandpa kick? Then at least the dog would be around to comfort them."

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Source : Merrill Markoe (2006). “Walking in Circles Before Lying Down: A Novel”, p.208, Villard

Merrill Markoe

#Dog Quotes #Kids Quotes #Grandpa Quotes

“Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.”
“It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.”
“I'm good at doing the laundry. At least that. And it's a religious experience...Water, earth, fire-polarities of wet and dry, hot and cold, dirty and clean. The great cycles-round and round-beginning and end-Alpha and Omega, amen.”
“A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.”
“Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones,”
“I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.”
“Why, then, does water-form the very basis of life in all life's various manifestations? Because water embraces everything is in and all through everything; because it rises above the distinctions between plants and animals and human beings; because it is a universal element shared by all; itself undetermined, yet determining; because, like the primal mother it is, it supplies the stuff of life to everything living.”
“I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.”

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