They offer, if we are wise enough or simple enough to take it, a model for what it means to give your heart with little thought of return. Both powerfully imaginary and comfortingly real, dogs act as mirrors for our… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
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… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant,… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own. — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
A study conducted by the State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School suggested that in times of stress a dog is likely… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can we find… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
“Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past,… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively,… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
They offer, if we are wise enough or simple enough to take it, a model for what it means to give your heart with… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more than fidelity,… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
“It's often the material things that provide the essence of memory.” — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
