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Joseph Wood Krutch

25 November 1893-22 May 1970

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The Cat is an animal that operates on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what one wants.

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The Machine is co-constitutive of man -- as they get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like them.

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Man (human) is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?".

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New England is cold — The most serious charge which can be brought against it is not Puritanism, but February.

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Parenting is not as important as generally thought — how the twig is bent may be less important than the way it bends itself

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The Snow is lonely, or if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.