Marjorie Garber Quotes

• A study conducted by the State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School suggested that in times of stress a dog is likely to be more help in calming you down than a spouse or partner. Most dog owners can guess the reason why: dogs never judge us and never compete with us.

  Marjorie Garber

  Friendship, Dog, New York

  Marjorie Garber (1997). “DOG LOVE”, Touchstone

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• If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.

  Marjorie Garber

  Friendship, Dog, Sadness

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• 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 or used, even for moral good. This refusal, indeed, is literature's most moral act. At a time when meanings are manifold, disparate, and always changing, the rich possibility of interpretation--the happy resistance of the text to ever be fully known and mastered--is one of the most exhilarating products of human culture.

  Marjorie Garber

  Real, Doe, Culture

  Marjorie Garber (2011). “The Use and Abuse of Literature”, p.30, Vintage

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• 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 own beliefs about what would constitute a truly humane society. Perhaps it is not too late for them to teach us some new tricks.

  Marjorie Garber

  Wise, Dog, Real

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• Los perros de nuestras vidas, los perros a los que llegamos a querer y que (creemos fervientemente) nos quieren a cambio, ofrecen algo más que fidelidad, consuelo y compañía. Ofrecen comedia, ironía, ingenio y un sinfín de anécdotas, "historias de perros vagabundos" y "trucos estúpidos de mascotas" que son placeres cotidianos de la vida.

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  Dog, Stupid, Believe

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• If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

  Marjorie Garber

  Temptation, Eras, Should

  Marjorie Garber (2008). “Shakespeare and Modern Culture”, p.108, Anchor

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• The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can we find the full panoply of William Bennett's Book of Virtues-from Courage and Responsibility to Loyalty and Family Values-but in Lassie and Beethoven and Millie and Checkers and Spot?

  Marjorie Garber

  Loyalty, Dog, Book

  Marjorie Garber (1997). “DOG LOVE”, Touchstone

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• Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.

  Marjorie Garber

  Unique, Thinking, Names

  Marjorie Garber (2009). “Academic Instincts”, p.144, Princeton University Press

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• Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.

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  Book, Wells, Wanted

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• Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I think, that at both ends of human life span the bond between human and dog speaks with an insistent clarity - if we have the ears to hear.

  Marjorie Garber

  Dog, Love Is, Thinking

  Marjorie Garber (1997). “DOG LOVE”, Touchstone

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