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    Susanna Clarke
    “Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!"
    "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one's imperfections.”
    Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    tags: cats

  • #2
    “I hated cats. I was a dog lover," Des says with a shrug. "What's the point of a cat? They're not affectionate. But that's because it's not my cat. I mean, your wife wouldn't jump on my lap. That's because she's your wife, not mine. Until you have your own cat, you really don't understand.”
    Rescue Ink, Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck,and a Few Turtles

  • #3
    “The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.”
    William Lyon Phelps
    tags: cats

  • #4
    William S. Burroughs
    “I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute,
    & if they are cute they rapidly outgrow it”
    William S. Burroughs
    tags: cats

  • #5
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #6
    Francis Bacon
    “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...”
    Sir Francis Bacon

  • #7
    Immanuel Kant
    “Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
    Immanuel Kant



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