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The cat (Felis catus), also known as the domestic cat or housecat to distinguish it from other felines and felids, is a small carnivorous mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and its ability to hunt vermin and household pests. It has been associated with humans for at least 9,500...
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Filter this CollectionI said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.
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- Raymond Chandler
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Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
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- Mark Twain
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
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- Robertson Davies
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One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy.
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- Edward Dahlberg
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Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their evil look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.
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- Camille Paglia
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Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
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- Don Marquis
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Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.
- x Author:
- Raymond Chandler
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If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
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- Doris Lessing
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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- Edgar Allan Poe
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