"We need cats to need us. It unnerves……" — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
"We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us."
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14 Quotes by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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After a lifetime of affectionate regard for dogs and many years of close observation and reflection, I have reached the…
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Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel.
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Dogs never lie about love.
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Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it,…
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The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be…
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What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable…
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Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no."
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Every time I told my cocker spaniel, Taffy, my very first dog, that we were going for a walk, she…
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Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd…
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Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have,…
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Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.
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We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction…
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a…
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There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes…
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I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
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My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.
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