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"My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it."
"Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers."
"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."
Explore more quotes by Edward Hoagland
"Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?"
"The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying."
"City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead."
"In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog."
"Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run."
"Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same."
"Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts."
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