Animals don't harm you until you harm them

Life is like a prison sentence, 
trapped in the bars of this earthly world, 
not knowing what's going to happen next,
the only one that escapes this  sentence,is the departed sole.

That's what any decent mind ought to do for its owner when she lets it off the leash - just go bounding away into the long grass and bring back a really profound thought, laying it at her feet all furry and palpitating. C'mon now. Hey los'!

Not that she didn’t enjoy the holidays: but she always felt—and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness—a little relieved when they were over. Her normal life pleased her so well that she was half afraid to step out of its frame in case one day she should find herself unable to get back.

...[T]he mechanics of life should never be allowed to interfere with living.

It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live simply, and eat sparingly, and recover the use of our legs, and get up early enough to see the sun rise. However, it has needed one: which is about the severest criticism our civilization could have.

Jan Struther

Quotes by Jan Struther

Written By Jan Struther

Written By Jan Struther

Written By Jan Struther

Written By Jan Struther

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