“Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on.”
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) Shah of Iran
As quoted in Gholam R. Afkhami (2009) The life and times of the Shah, page 261
The 'dog' was a reference to Khomeini
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“Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
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Context: My dog lay dead five days without a grave
In the thick of summer, hid in a clump of pine
And a jungle of grass and honey-suckle vine.
I who had loved him while he kept alive
Went only close enough to where he was
To sniff the heavy honeysuckle-smell
Twined with another odor heavier still
And hear the flies' intolerable buzz.
St. 1
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