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"Rincewind gave his fingers a long shocked stare, as one might regard a gun that has been hanging on the wall for decades and has suddenly gone off and perforated the cat."
"The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked."
"You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king."
"How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven."
"As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right."
"Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn't make them biscuits."
"There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals. I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat."
"And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws."
"What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow."
"If you've got a cat and a leg, you've got a happy cat. If you've got a cat and two legs, you've got a party."
"When they are among us cats are angels"
"It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being."
"A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful."
"The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered."
"When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?"
"The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats."
"A cat is a regency gentleman--elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging love affairs, duels by moonlight and the singing of glees. He expects immaculate service from his domestic staff, and possesses a range of invective that would make a navy blanch."
"Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we do so, however, that original state deepens and turns into awareness."
"Did you know that Dog Heaven and Cat Hell were the same place?"
"Cats are too independent. They piss me off. They play when they want, and then they turn their back on you. Dogs, you throw the ball, and they bring it back, tongue hanging out, tail wagging. Cats are like "Not right now, too busy." Definitely a dog man. Except when it comes to cleaning up after them! Cats win that!"
