108 Quotes About Dogs-and-humans



  • Author Kate Atkinson
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    They were turning into Wallace and Gromit, he could feel it. Soon he'd be calling the dog "lad" and sharing cheese and crackers with it. There were worse things, he supposed.

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  • Author E.B. White
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    I take Democrats to bed with me for lack of a dachshund, although as a matter of fact on occasions like this I am almost certain to be visited by the ghost of Fred, my dash-hound everlasting, dead these many years. In life, Fred always attended the sick, climbing right into bed with the patient like some lecherous old physician, and making a bad situation worse.

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  • Author J.R. Ackerley
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    Was she happy? I suppose she was happy. She had, after all, fulfilled a dog's most urgent need, she had managed to bestow her heart, and upon steady people whose dull, uneventful lives required the consolation of what she had to give.

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  • Author Norman Maclean
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    To others in my family, the dog was something of a sacred object that had prolonged my father's life and helped to steady the rest of us. He was a fine dog, and after him, my father had no other dog.

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