11 Quotes by Marjorie Garber

If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.

There are men of character in the U.S. Congress, both House and Senate. There are women of character, too. But the evidence for "character" needs to be something other than the iteration of the word itself.

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

It's often the material things that provide the essence of memory.

Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past, present, or future.

Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I think, that at both ends of human life span the bond between human and dog speaks with an insistent clarity – if we have the ears to hear.

Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.

It’s often the material things that provide the essence of memory.

Prospero is man-the-artist, or man-the-scholar: Ariel and Caliban represent his ethereal and material selves – the one airy, imaginative, and swift; the second earthy, gross, and appetitive.