“Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I think, that at both ends of human life span the bond between human and dog speaks with an insistent clarity - if we have the ears to hear.” IfsThinkingHumansEndsMatterSpeakLove IsChildhoodSpecialDogEarsNo Matter WhatSignificantClarityHuman LifeRealmsBoyhoodDog LoveLife SpanHumans And Dogs Book:DOG LOVE Source: DOG LOVE
“We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by its own inexhaustibility, and by its ultimate refusal to be applied or used, even for moral good. This refusal, indeed, is literature's most moral act. At a time when meanings are manifold, disparate, and always changing, the rich possibility of interpretation--the happy resistance of the text to ever be fully known and mastered--is one of the most exhilarating products of human culture.” IfsHumansDoeRealUseProblemUsedCultureLiteratureKnownMoralRichPossibilityProductsUltimateSolveResistanceInterpretationRefusalExhilaratingDisserviceManifold Book:The Use and Abuse of Literature Source: The Use and Abuse of Literature
“The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can we find the full panoply of William Bennett's Book of Virtues-from Courage and Responsibility to Loyalty and Family Values-but in Lassie and Beethoven and Millie and Checkers and Spot?” HumansBookTodayValuesResponsibilityVirtueDogModelsPropertyLoyaltySpotsFamily ValuesCheckersLassie Book:DOG LOVE Source: DOG LOVE
