Rhett Butler is very mysterious. He disappears, he reappears, God knows where he goes. We know nothing about his family to speak of.
In life, sometimes it pays off when you really don't give a damn.
Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is commonplace in dogs, men's adrenal glands could shrink. Dogs, by making us more efficient predators, gave us time to think. In short, dogs civilized us.
If you don't have work for a border collie or time to train it properly, your bright young border collie will invent his own work, and chances are you won't like it.
The Civil War has a tremendous moral and emotional force.
Research is the historical novelist's map, constraint, and purest energy.
I am no historian but have tried to stick tight to the facts.
A young dog's faith is absolute... Dogs are notorious for hope. Dogs believe that this morning, this very morning, may begin a day of fascination, easily grander than any day in the past.
I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily.
Though each trainer believes his or her method is best, I don't think it matters which method the pet owner adopts so long as that owner finds a capable mentor and sticks with the training. Eventually you will learn to see your dog, and when that happens, the richness of your and your dog's lives will tell you what to do next.
Sheep may not be brilliant, but they know that sheep in pen is stage number one of lamb chops.
I don't care to read about Garrison Keillor. We cover the same sort of territory, and I don't need to know anything more about him.
