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"Love deep is inexhaustible like a vast ocean."
Explore more quotes by James Herriot

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

"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."

"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."

"I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears."

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

"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 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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