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One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

Stuffed cats are able to creep more convincingly than live ones.

He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats...

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But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp!

No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even...

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Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and...

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Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and stumbles to bring it to you. Do the same be...

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The cat . . . is for the man who appreciates beauty as the one living force in a blind and purposele...

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The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any t...

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The dog appeals to cheap and facile emotions; the cat to the deepest founts of imagination and cosmi...

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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by ...

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The cool, lithe, cynical, and unconquered lord of the housetops.

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.

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H. P. LovecraftCollected Essays 5: Philosophy

It is said that in Ulthar, which lies beyond the river Skai, no man may kill a cat; and this I can v...

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Some of them stole off to those cryptical realms which are known only to cats and which villagers sa...

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H. P. LovecraftThe Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

Down through this verdant land Carter walked at evening, and saw twilight float up from the river to...

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H. P. LovecraftThe Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mounta...

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H. P. LovecraftThe Rats in the Walls

The white saucer like some full moon descendsAt last from the clouds of the table above;She sighs an...

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Harold MonroCollected Poems

When the tea is brought at five o'clockAnd all the neat curtains are drawn with care,The little blac...

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Harold MonroCollected Poems

Are there any capitalist cats?" Nakata asked

You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Ca...

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Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with co...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there!

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Henry JamesThe Madonna of the Future by Henry James

The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

My old black cat, he passed away this morning. He never knew what a heartache was. Woke up late and ...

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Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathe...

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

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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a cat.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they none...

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(about cats) They also resist our calls to come, to move, to obey, to present themselves, to do all ...

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Mister didn't come with me on cases, being above such trivial matters, but he found me pleasant comp...

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Jim ButcherSide Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files

Rowl reminded himself that cats were eternally patient, and that he would not simply explode if he d...

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Jim ButcherThe Aeronaut's Windlass

Being called "dangerous" by a cat could mean a great many things, but it was generally delivered as ...

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Jim ButcherThe Aeronaut's Windlass

Rowl felt sure that Bridget's fragile feelings would be crushed if he denied her the pleasure of sha...

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Jim ButcherThe Aeronaut's Windlass

When a single cat let loose a war cry, it was an unsettling sound. When two cats suddenly wailed at ...

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Littlemouse was in danger, doubtless a prisoner, and the humans could not be trusted to handle her r...

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Jim ButcherThe Aeronaut's Windlass

...after a pointless delay for the humans to collect all their toys and keepsakes, he was able to ta...

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Jim ButcherThe Aeronaut's Windlass

He had to give humans credit where it was due - they did seem to have a knack for building interesti...

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Jim ButcherThe Aeronaut's Windlass

It was why no sane cat allowed kits to come anywhere near human beings. Humans seemed to feel that i...

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He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility.

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Jim ButcherThe Aeronaut's Windlass

On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes...

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If cats could count, they’d start getting nervous around the time they put paid to their fifth life.

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

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John SteinbeckThe Winter of Our Discontent

One upside of the heat. Kind of cool to see a cat pant.

Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesti...

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At the railroad station he noted that he still had thirty minutes. He quickly recalled that in a caf...

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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I hav...

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A panther poised in the cypress tree about to jump is apanther poised in a cypress tree about to jum...

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Joy HarjoConflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

The gym cat appears to those who will die. He is our totem." This thought came to me a few weeks ago...

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

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I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a per...

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Julio CortázarAround the Day in Eighty Worlds

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can on...

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I'd take cyanide no problem if it was that or throwing a cat out in the street, even a moth-eaten, m...

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Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble o...

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We lost track of which was which, but we were fairly sure that some of the creatures had been borne ...

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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the ca...

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Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't ...

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While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

That's the way with a cat, you know -- any cat; they don't give a damn for discipline. And they can'...

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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the r...

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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiment...

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Mark TwainLetters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings

If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home,...

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Mark TwainPudd'nhead Wilson

Then the cow asked:"What is a mirror?""It is a hole in the wall," said the cat. "You look in it, and...

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A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going...

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Mark TwainTom Sawyer Abroad

Cats don't think they're owned by anybody. Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they'r...

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I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seei...

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Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly.The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation."I beg pardon,...

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Not fooling around, not bothering nobody, just sitting here mending the Primus," said the cat with a...

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Mikhail BulgakovThe Master and Margarita

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-wor...

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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at t...

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Cats don’t have names,” it said.“No?” said Coraline.“No,” said the cat. “Now, you people have names....

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No," said the cat. "Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know w...

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Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don'...

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We...we could be friends.'We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants...

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The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be...

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What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?''Cats don't have names,' it sa...

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There are those who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful on...

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The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones...

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Tramps and vagabonds have marks they make on gateposts and trees and doors, letting others of their ...

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She smiled again. "Do you like cat?" she said."Yes," said Richard. "I quite like cats."Anaesthesia l...

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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,...

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The ball of dark fur pressed itself into my chest, and I wished she was my kitten, and knew that she...

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every p...

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

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

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Orhan PamukThe Museum of Innocence

Never believe a rumor of my death,' said Peter. 'I have as many lives as a cat. Also as many teeth, ...

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I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and ...

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P. G. WodehouseA Wodehouse Bestiary

Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just...

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The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer...

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I fall short of her standards. She made me buy cat food that hasn't been tested on animals. My cats ...

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Paula PoundstoneThe Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness