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"Each individual cat got up and did his thing. It wasn't like today where they come down and put down some nice linoleum so you don't get burnt up. I mean, we used to b-boy right in the middle of the park with broken glass everywhere! And you'd get up and you'd be all scratched and burised and bleeding and you would be ready to go right back in the circle. You'd just wipe the glass off your elbows and go right back in."

Mean Nice Cat
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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
Cat

"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat."

Hands Science Cat
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Cat

"I am a nice young girl here to pick up your granddaughter for the weekend... We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her. - Bones to Cat's grandparents"

Girl Nice Cat
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Mikhail Bulgakov Novelist, Playwright
Cat

"Actually, I do happen to resemble a hallucination. Kindly note my silhouette in the moonlight." The cat climbed into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to keep talking but was asked to be quiet. "Very well, I shall be silent," he replied, "I shall be a silent hallucination."

Talking Cat Hallucinations
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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Cat

"I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish."

Jesus Cat Alcohol
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Orhan Pamuk Novelist, Screenwriter
Cat

"After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy."

Men Cat
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James Thurber Cartoonist, Author
Cat

"I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance."

Men Dog Cat
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Jules Verne Novelist, Playwright
Cat

"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through."

Believe Cat Clouds
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Mikhail Bulgakov Novelist, Playwright
Cat

"But worse things were about to be found in the bedroom: on the jeweller’s wife’s ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a third party- namely, a black cat of uncanny size, with a glass of vodka in one paw and a fork, on which he had managed to spear a pickled mushroom, in the other. , The Master and Magarita"

Party Cat Glasses
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Lowell Thomas Journalist
Cat

"In Istanbul I met a man who said he knew beyond a doubt that God was a cat. I asked why he was so sure, and the man said, "When I pray to him, he ignores me.""

Men Cat Istanbul
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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
Cat

"Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine."

Men Love Cat
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Dana Gould Comedian
Cat

"They say that cats are the only animal that can sit in your lap and ignore you. To which I say: you've never been to the Spearmint Rhino."

Animal Cat Rhinos
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Erma Bombeck Humorist, Writer
Cat

"Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world. They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons, ball-point pens, moving goldfish, cigarette butts, and cat food. Try to coax a little beef stew into their mouths and they look at you like a puppy when you stand over him with the Sunday paper rolled up."

Moving Kids Cat
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