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
The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more than fidelity, consolation, and companionship. They offer comedy, irony, wit, and a wealth of anecdotes, the "shaggy dog… — 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
