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Donald McCaig
American
Novelist
Born:
Jan 1
,
1940
About
Dog
Think
Will
Work
You
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A young dog's faith is absolute... Dogs are notorious for hope. Dogs believe that this morning, this very morning, may begin a day of fascination, easily grander than any day in the past.
Donald McCaig
Hope
Faith
Day
Morning
Dog
Past
Young
Believe
Easily
Absolute
Dogs
Very
Begin
Than
Any
May
In The Past
Grander
Notorious
Fascination
I'd rather talk about dogs than about me.
Donald McCaig
Me
About
Rather
Talk
Dogs
Than
I am built funny. Picture Mark Twain's head on Ichabod Crane's body. Now hold your mental picture to the light and crumple it.
Donald McCaig
Funny
Light
Picture
Mark
Mental
Head
Built
Am
Hold
Body
Your
Twain
Now
I'm out of the terse Hemingway school.
Donald McCaig
School
Out
Hemingway
Had we settled in Pennsylvania, there's no way I would have written a Confederate novel.
Donald McCaig
Confederate
Settled
Way
Would
Pennsylvania
Had
Written
Novel
When people say what is 'Gone With the Wind' about, they say it's a love story between Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. But Mammy is almost a third party.
Donald McCaig
Love
People
Wind
Party
Love Story
Gone
Say
People Say
Scarlett
About
Almost
Between
Story
Gone With The Wind
They Say
Butler
Third
Rhett Butler is very mysterious. He disappears, he reappears, God knows where he goes. We know nothing about his family to speak of.
Donald McCaig
God
Family
Speak
Nothing
About
Mysterious
He
Disappears
Know
Knows
His
Very
Goes
Where
Butler
A sheepdog trial is the most difficult test of a man and dog ever devised.
Donald McCaig
Man
Dog
Difficult
Trial
Most
Test
Ever
That we have altered the dog genetically is well understood; it is hardly known how they changed us.
Donald McCaig
Dog
Changed
Genetically
Well
Altered
Known
How
Understood
Us
Hardly
Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is commonplace in dogs, men's adrenal glands could shrink. Dogs, by making us more efficient predators, gave us time to think. In short, dogs civilized us.
Donald McCaig
Time
Courage
Better
Men
Smell
Think
Gave
Sight
More
Civilized
Could
Glands
Since
Concentrate
Making
Dogs
Hear
Efficient
Than
Short
Predators
Commonplace
Us
Shrink
Research is the historical novelist's map, constraint, and purest energy.
Donald McCaig
Energy
Research
Purest
Constraint
Historical
Map
Novelist
The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them.
Donald McCaig
War
Events
Characters
Civil
Civil War
Poignant
Simply
Well
Odd
Ferocious
Fictional
Them
Inhabit
I am no historian but have tried to stick tight to the facts.
Donald McCaig
Tried
Facts
Stick
Tight
Am
Historian
Though each trainer believes his or her method is best, I don't think it matters which method the pet owner adopts so long as that owner finds a capable mentor and sticks with the training. Eventually you will learn to see your dog, and when that happens, the richness of your and your dog's lives will tell you what to do next.
Donald McCaig
Best
You
Dog
Training
Pet
Will
Long
Matters
Think
Though
Tell
Finds
See
Adopt
Mentor
Learn
Sticks
Method
His
Trainer
Owner
Happens
Which
Capable
Next
Your
Richness
Each
Eventually
Lives
Believes
Her
Sheep may not be brilliant, but they know that sheep in pen is stage number one of lamb chops.
Donald McCaig
Brilliant
Sheep
Stage
Pen
Know
May
Lamb
Chops
Number
I don't care to read about Garrison Keillor. We cover the same sort of territory, and I don't need to know anything more about him.
Donald McCaig
Care
About
More
Know
Him
Read
Sort
Territory
Cover
Same
Anything
Need
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