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Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. J...

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Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should aris...

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You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, 'My GOSH, yo...

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You could be Charles Manson, or Hitler, or even a lawyer who advertises on television, and your dog ...

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Dave BarryI'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood

Other useful commands to teach your dog are 'stay,' 'heel,' 'remove your snout from that person's gr...

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Dave BarryI'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?""I give.""...

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Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar wit...

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David SedarisMe Talk Pretty One Day

Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their ...

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This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, ...

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May I tell you a wonderful truth about your dog? ... You have been given stewardship of what you in ...

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Dean KoontzA Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

May I tell you a wonderful truth about your dog? ... In our religion, we believe in reincarnation. W...

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Dean KoontzA Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointmen...

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Dean KoontzA Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to ...

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Dean KoontzA Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.

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Dean KoontzA Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disag...

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Dean KoontzA Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

Dogs needed no words to console you. Dogs were the ultimate practitioners of the therapy of touch. D...

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After his dinner, the wolfhound liked to prowl the grounds, sniffing the grass to learn what creatur...

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Dean KoontzBreathless

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditatio...

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Years later, after other experiences with dogs, I wondered if their species were shaped and charmed ...

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Dogs, lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you're go...

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Dean KoontzThe Darkest Evening of the Year

Tommy and Scootie locked eyes. Only minutes ago, he wouldn't have believed that he could ever have f...

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people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and inte...

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I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

my master is the same as godwhen he thumps with his handpeople bring us hamburg steaksat any eating ...

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I noticed that he was an Irish setter, rust-colored. He noticed that I was a Welsh sculptor, buff-co...

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Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possi...

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I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted com...

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Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I...

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So what part did I play in all this? Well, none really. They completely ignored me for the whole twe...

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Douglas AdamsThe Salmon of Doubt

In fact it was altogether an odd dog, of uncertain breed, or breeds. It was large and black, but its...

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Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors,

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Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera

I won't let you go! I love you, Dog!''There will be other dogs and friends, and loves' whispered the...

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Remember: If you go for a walk with a friend in England, don't say a single word for hours; if you g...

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George MikesHow to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils

The dog barked and wagged his tail. He was a huge, shaggy creature, ten stone of dog at least, but f...

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A hound will die for you, but never lie to you.

When a dog goes bad, the fault lies with his master.

Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go...

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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

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Groucho MarxThe Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and stumbles to bring it to you. Do the same be...

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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by ...

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You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Ca...

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Dogs are actually very smart, it's just that they're rather clumsy, but it's this trait that makes h...

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I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.

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Irvine WelshIf You Liked School

However, for all his affection and loyalty towards the animal, the dog would soon be leaving him - t...

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He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs."On...

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Oh, for heaven’s sake, Sirius, Dumbledore said no!”A bearlike black dog had appeared at Harry’s side...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted...

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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hung...

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A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, ...

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But he is not always alone. When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat int...

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Jack LondonThe Call of the Wild

In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into ...

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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequentl...

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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and...

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Then in a great crash they threw themselves to the floor, ears flopped down, the whites of their eye...

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(about cats) They also resist our calls to come, to move, to obey, to present themselves, to do all ...

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Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s aut...

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We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction ...

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Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with oursel...

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Jeffrey Moussaieff MassonDogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs

They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up...

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Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.

It is like the panting of a thousand puppies.

It was like the panting of a thousand puppies.

It made me feel better. Mouse might not have been thesmartest creature on earth, but he was steady, ...

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[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal."The kid lifted his eyebrows."My mouth is pa...

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People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.

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Jim ButcherWhite Night

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact wit...

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Jodi PicoultMy Sister's Keeper

Taking a deep breath, I shake my head and find Judge staring at me. "Reason number 106 why dogs are ...

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Dogs were generally incompatible with melancholy.

Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequea...

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I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that...

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The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think...

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Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesti...

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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

Every dog must have his day.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.

We are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as we know, do not agonise about the canine condition...

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It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.

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Kate DiCamilloBecause of Winn-Dixie

You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.

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Kate DiCamilloBecause of Winn-Dixie

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

And as a sign that everything was now all right in the world, she opened her mouth a fraction, and a...

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I look down at my black Diablo, head on his paws. He is at my feet. He knows that he must trust to m...

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Wherever the family was, these two dogs, both six-year-old shepherd mixes, took up their posts at th...

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Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert...

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal di...

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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the r...

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Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the crea...

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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiment...

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Mark TwainLetters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord G...

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LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT(PERCY THREE)He puts his cheek against mineand makes small, express...

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Love, love, love, says Percy.And hurry as fast as you canalong the shining beach, or the rubble, or ...

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I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.He is...

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EVERY DOG’S STORYI have a bed, my very own.It’s just my size.And sometimes I like to sleep alonewith...

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No, I mean really listen. Here's a story, and you don't have to visit manyhouses to find it. One per...

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And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, ...

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Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reas...

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