"My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest,……" — Jean Hanff Korelitz
"My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English language."
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10 Quotes by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Jean Hanff Korelitz has 10 quotes on this site.
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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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Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains…
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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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More Acute Quotes
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
— Arthur Balfour
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a…
— Lydia M. Child
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will…
— Leonard Cohen
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Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is…
— Sun Tzu
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We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of…
— Sigmund Freud
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship…
— Philip Yancey
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...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by…
— Hippocrates
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held…
— Baruch Spinoza
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I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching,…
— Jennifer Worth
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Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape…
— George Meredith
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and…
— Florence Nightingale
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