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"Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities."
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"Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. Men made dogs, they took wolves and gave them human things--unnecessary intelligence, names, a desire to belong, and a twitching inferiority complex. All dogs dream wolf dreams, and know they're dreaming of biting their Maker. Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog..."

"Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers."

"Years later, after other experiences with dogs, I wondered if their species were shaped and charmed to serve as four-legged guides able to assist in leading humanity back to our first-and lost-home. By the example of their joy and humility, by wanting nothing more than food and play and love, by the deep satisfaction that they take from those humble things, they belie all creeds of power and fame. Although they have the teeth to tear, it is by swish of tail and yearning eyes that they most easily get what they want."

"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."
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"The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out."

"Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age."

"Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter."

"The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be."

"We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change."

"Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer."

"Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke."
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