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"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."
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"The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one."
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"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."

"In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary."

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"I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs."

"I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love."

"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans."

"I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago."

"I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me."

"There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring."

"I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us."
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