Jean Burden quotes

Jean Burden quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.”
-- Jean Burden

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“A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.”
-- Jean Burden

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“The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.”
“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
“Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.”
“To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.”
“No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives”
“There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so; for they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.”
“Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.”

Source : "In Defense of the Fence". www.wnd.com. April 04, 2008.
“Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.”
“Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.”
“The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.”

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