- Eat Breakfast
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Ground
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- Nov 07, 2020
Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like. Grown-ups behaved rationally and calmly. Grown-ups worked during the day and came home at night and sat down for drinks and passed the evening quietly.
- Hard Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.
- Flaws
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you love somebody, or something, it's amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always walked around with the sense that the world is not a safe place. I didn't get the spontaneous gene or the adventure one, really. After going through the day with its stresses, when I shut that door at night, I don't have to deal with anything but dinner, 'E.R.' and my bathrobe.
- Enchanted
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you study a dog you love, you find beauty in every small detail, and so it is with Lucille: I have become enchanted by the small asymmetrical whorls of white fur on either side of her chest, and by her tail, which she carries in a high confident curve, and by her eyes, which are watchful and intelligent, the color of chestnuts.
- Pet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.
- Better Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don't think that all relationships between dogs and their owners are good, healthy, or enriching.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing - big heavy boots, baggy old sweaters, a hooded down parka from L.L. Bean that makes me look like an astronaut.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people, quite frankly, think intense attachments to animals are weird and suspect, the domain of people who can't quite handle attachments to humans.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, I ate the same foods every day, in exactly the same manner, at exactly the same times.
- Angular
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020