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Enid Bagnold: If a dog...

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If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humour. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

Source: Autobiography, ch. 10 (1969).
-- Enid Bagnold, (Oct 27 1889-1981), English novelist, playwright; She was known for her broad range of subject and style; wrote National Velvet, 1935 and the prize-winning play The Chalk Garden, 1956.


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