"We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat."
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"A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering."
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"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect."
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"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."
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"Cats invented self-esteem."
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"The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree."
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"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction."
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"I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including dogs, cats, and even some primates."
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"If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer."
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"I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it."
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"It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar."
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"I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course."
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"What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?' 'Cats don't have names,' it said. 'No?' said Coraline. 'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names."
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"The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on."
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"Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat."
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"What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care."
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"Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose."
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"You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it."
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"I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: "Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around."
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"No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist."
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