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"Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished."
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"My favorite people are the ones that can make any unfunny joke hilarious by just laughing."

"Walk with me for a while, my friend-you in my shoes, I in yours-and then let us talk."

"John Grady looked at the table. The paper cat stepped thin and slant among the shapes of cats thereon. He looked up again. Yessir, he said. Just me and him."

"The clown's eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. "But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship."

"It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God."

"Because even if you spend your life chasing the immaterial, listening to the most exquisite classical music and getting drunk off of stunning vistas of mountains and waterfalls, all of it isn't worth a dime if you aren't sharing it with someone. Everything amounts to that. True, we must experience most things in solitude to grow, create, destroy and grow again, but our pleasure and joy reaches a threshold in isolation. It is the worst thing to become an island. One must become the whole world."

"Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock."

"I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn't have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I'm so into the process itself, not so much the end product."

"Some men can be good ' horse whisperers ' and many dogs can be wonderful ' man whisperers '."

"Pets reflect you like mirrors. When you are happy, you can see your dog smiling and when you are sad, your cat cries."
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"...I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace."

"Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well."

"On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before."

"...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth."

"She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her writing would suffer from too much happiness, that she needed a balanced life with down days and miseries to keep the sharp edge on her work. But the idea that an artist needed to suffer to do her best work was a conceit of the young and inexperienced. The happier she grew, the better she wrote."

"None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light."
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