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The Truth About Cats & Dogs QUOTES

1 " I remembered his expression remained not exactly bored so much as philosophically separate "

― Joe Dunthorne , The Truth About Cats & Dogs

2 " I am in awe of Sam's decision to abandon capitals and punctuation but am not brave enough to do the same. I like to imagine the day he, as the Americans say, made the change he wished to see in the world. I like to think it came to him suddenly. Perhaps he was swimming - no, too active - or napping indoors on a hot day - no, too bourgeois - probably he was in Scotland during the midge season and he left the desk lamp on and the window open when he went out for a meaningful walk. It was dark and the midges were drawn to the lamplight and - thinking it was the moon - fried themselves against the bulb, falling in their tens and tens, cooked on the pages of Sam's poems. So when he returned some time later, with bites on his neck, he found his poems loaded with punctuation, asterisks, grammar lying dead on his manuscript and his instant reaction was disgust, a feeling that then infected his whole aesthetic. "

― Joe Dunthorne , The Truth About Cats & Dogs

3 " He communicated via napkin which was probably a Brechtian alienation device.

wonder if it possible for you to sleep on stage because I've got poem where I say things about you while you sleep?

I asked to hear the poem first and he wrote: whole point is your not knowing.

Hard to believe they fund his PhD. "

― Joe Dunthorne , The Truth About Cats & Dogs

4 " I like it,' Joe said, 'bruises are poetic.' I had to agree: most of my poems have bruises in them. As we were in a public place I resisted the urge to say, "Poems are a little bit like bruises, aren't they? "

― Joe Dunthorne , The Truth About Cats & Dogs