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" A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog. "
Child
Good
Dog
" Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years. "
Years
Rock
Bass
" Cats will outsmart dogs every time. "
Every Time
Will
Time
" Certain people are not going to connect with a book about the effect a dog has on a family. But every one of us has parents and has either said goodbye to those parents or knows that someday they will. "
Book
Family
Goodbye
" Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are. "
Short
Amazing
Go
" Even though I'm totally dependent on modern electronic gizmos, from my laptop to my iPod to my cell phone, I love to embrace old technology or no technology at all. "
Old
Love
Cell Phone
" I can't solve the world's problems, can't even begin to contemplate them all. But on my little corner of Earth, I at least can try to live in a way that treads lightly. "
World
Earth
Live
" I collect old rusty hand tools and sharpen and polish them, then use them to build things out of walnut and cherry that I harvest from fallen trees in the woods. "
Tools
Old
Build
" I confess to being a CNN junkie. And when I'm driving, it's all NPR all the time. "
NPR
Time
CNN
" I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up. "
Me
Thought
Wife
" I take a lot of satisfaction in trying to make my land as self-contained as possible, its own little mini environment. Minimal outputs; minimal inputs. "
Own
Satisfaction
Trying
" I was keenly aware that everybody would have loved for me to do a close sequel or a spin-off to 'Marley and Me.' "
Aware
Me
Loved
" Living organically is my way of feeling connected to the earth and my own humanity. It's how I feel balanced and at peace with the planet. "
Living
Feeling
Earth
" Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans. "
Love
Devotion
Dogs
" 'Marley and Me' was a book I was proud of and believed in, but I thought it would just have a modest audience because it is such a personal story about my marriage and my family. "
Thought
Proud
Marriage
" Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable. "
Own
You
Believe
" When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to it. "
Book
Me
Only
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