"The fog comes on little cat feet."
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"I've always loved independent music stores because the staff is usually there because of a genuine love and appreciation for music. They're more in-tune with the customers and I'm willing to pay the extra dollar or two for the service they provide. Some of my greatest music discoveries have come from picking up an album at an indy store and the cat behind the register saying "You like this man? Have you heard of so-and-so?" I prefer to shop where people understand me and the music- the music i like."
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"The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names."
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"All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats."
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"Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives."
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"Never try to outstubborn a cat."
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"There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan."
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"The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise."
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"The bad jazz that a cat blows wails long after he’s cut out."
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"I don’t care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice."
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"No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife."
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"There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him."
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"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."
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"What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?"
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"Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?"
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"I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier."
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"I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat."
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"Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream."
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"Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them."
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"One cat just leads to another."
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