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Tove Jansson Quotes

Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: finnish
Birth: August 9, 1914 - June 27, 2001

Topics

Know Smell Dogs Us How Watched

Sometimes, guys are in a slump, or you feel like you're not doing anything with the company, and I felt like that for years. But it can all change.

Change Feel Doing You Sometimes

I was a confused young man. I didn't know what I wanted to be.

Man Confused Know Young Young Man

I've become a little immune to the gazes of strangers because it's been a part of my life for so long.

Life My Life Long Strangers Become

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

Reality Sense Must Possibility Also

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

Red Way Inside Colour Out Interior

Somebody asked me - you know, how come it took you so long to win a national championship? And I said, 'I'm a slow learner; but you notice when I learn something, I have it down pretty good.'

Good Me Win Slow Learn You

There are so many talented people in the world - black, white, yellow, whatever - and we want to tell stories, too. But oftentimes, we get the one token minority role.

Ruthie Ann Miles

Yellow People World Black White

I can't imagine Jon Cryer performing with the New York Philharmonic isn't one of the signs of apocalypse.

New York New Signs Imagine York Jon

If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories, your family's stories, then?

Dorothy Allison

Family You Write Tell Would Your

Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.

Tough Times Gold Tough You Down Up

The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.

Christine Lavin

Ready Own Along Pace Come Songs

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Direction Reaction Anything Opposite

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