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“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...”
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“They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.”
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“I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
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“Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal.”
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“ I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thrilled when the mother, without prompting, began to sign her newborn.
Baby, drink milk.
Baby, play ball.
And when the baby died, the mother stood over the body, her wrinkled hands moving with animal grace, forming again and again the words: Baby, come hug, Baby come hug, fluent now in the language of grief.”
― The Collected Stories
In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thrilled when the mother, without prompting, began to sign her newborn.
Baby, drink milk.
Baby, play ball.
And when the baby died, the mother stood over the body, her wrinkled hands moving with animal grace, forming again and again the words: Baby, come hug, Baby come hug, fluent now in the language of grief.”
― The Collected Stories
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Cyd’s 2025 Year in Books
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