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What strained and anxious lives dogs must lead, so emotionally involved in the world of men, whose affections they strive endlessly to secure, whose authority they are expected unquestioningly to obey, and whose minds they can never do more than imperfectly reach and comprehend.

J. R. Ackerley

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J. R. Ackerley

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Born: November 4, 1896
Died: June 4, 1967 (aged 70)
Bio: Joe Randolph "J. R." Ackerley was a British writer and editor. Starting with the BBC the year after its founding in 1927, he was promoted to literary editor of The Listener, its weekly magazine, where he served for more than two decades.
Known for:
  1. My Father and Myself
  2. Hindoo holiday (1932)
  3. My dog Tulip (1956)
  4. We think the world of you (1960)
  5. Mi padre y yo

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