"Most of all, I am struck by an……" — Jean Hanff Korelitz
"Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound."
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Jean Hanff Korelitz
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10 Quotes by Jean Hanff Korelitz
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I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my…
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I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to…
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Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.
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Naturally, no march on Washington would be complete without its counter-demonstration.
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To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed…
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A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled…
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My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he…
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Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by…
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A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new…
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