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“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
As quoted in "A Beautiful Child" in Music for Chameleons (1980) by Truman Capote
“The playful nip denotes the bite, but it does not denote what would be denoted by the bite.”
From Part 4, section 2: A Theory of Play and Fantasy
Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972)

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