"I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton."
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"The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat."
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"Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet."
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"The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city."
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"I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats."
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"I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing."
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"I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft."
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"With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by.""
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"Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?"
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"Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives."
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"Time spent with a cat is never wasted."
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"He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ."
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"You know I’m the first rapper to adopt a tabby cat. You know I adopted straight from the ASPCA, you feel me? Just breaking the boundaries, man."
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"A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not."
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"In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass."
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"His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura of doom and sadness about this trusting little creature. He has been abandoned many times over the centuries, left to die in cold city alleys, in hot noon vacant lots, pottery shards, nettles, crumbled mud walls. Many times he has cried for help in vain."
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"Americans, too many of them, take themselves too seriously. You're going to get rapped - by the viewers, by the sponsors and by the network brass - if you joke about doctors, lawyers, dentists, scientists, bus drivers, I don't care who. You can't make a joke about Catholics, Negroes, Jews, Italians, politicians, dogs or cats. In fact, politicians, dogs and cats are the most sacred institutions in America."
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"God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger."
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"Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!"
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"Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything."
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