Amy Hempel Quotes About Dogs

Quotes about: Dogs

• They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.

  Amy Hempel

  Dog, Smart, Knows

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

• I told him about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way they flatter you by wanting to know every last thing about you, only it isn't a compliment, it is just efficient, a person getting more quickly to the end of you. Correction - dogs do want to know every last thing about you. They take in the smell of you, they know from the next room, asleep, when a mood settles over you. The difference is there's not an end to it.

  Amy Hempel

  Dog, Smell, Differences

  Amy Hempel (2010). “The Dog of the Marriage: Stories”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

• Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.

  Amy Hempel

  Good Night, Dog, Children

  Amy Hempel (2006). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

• I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that they’re dog, and that’s what dogs do.

  Amy Hempel

  Dog, Writing, Numbers

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