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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
Cat

"Siamese Cats have a way of staring at you. Those who have walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will know the expression."

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Brian Jacques Author
Cat

"Pick-a-lock, Pick-a-lock, you'll regret the day, When you took a mouse thief and locked him away, Silly cat, look at that, it's two for one, A thief and a warrior, by dawn will be gone."

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Wil McCarthy Author, Software Engineer
Cat

"The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
Cat

"Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art."

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
Cat

"Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred."

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Ray Bradbury Author
Cat

"(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)"

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Rebecca West Novelist, Journalist
Cat

"Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word."

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