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My dog Tulip (1956)
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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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Born:
November 4, 1896
Died:
June 4, 1967
(aged 70)
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