@kittehboi curates animal-related quotes.
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Quote: Emma Corrin on Cats
Cats do this thing with their faces where they’re so still, but they have this almost magnetic connection to anything they’re observing.— Emma Corrin, source unspecified.
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Quote: Joseph Wood Krutch on Cats
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.— Joseph Wood Krutch, The Desert Year In The Desert Year, Joseph Wood Krutch explores the plants, animals, and changing seasons of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. Look, the place may seem dry and empty, but it’s packed with…
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Quote: Paula Poundstone on Cats
The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.— Paula Poundstone, source unspecified.
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Quote: Jules Verne on Cats
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.— Jules Verne, source unspecified.
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Quote: Tom Nichols on Cats
Superstitions are especially prone to confirmation bias, and they survive because common sense and confirmation bias sometimes reinforce each other. Are black cats unlucky? Cats, black or otherwise, by their nature tend to get underfoot, but we might only remember the black ones who trip us up. I actually live with a lovely black cat…
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Quote: William S. Burroughs on Cats
My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.— William S. Burroughs, “The Cat Inside“
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Quote: Peter S. Beagle on Cats
I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.— Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn The Last Unicorn is about a unicorn who may be…
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Quote: Charles Bukowski on Cats
when I am feelinglowall i have to do iswatch my catsand mycouragereturns— Charles Bukowski, On Cats
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Quote: Ray Bradbury On Cats
That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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Quote: Napoleon Bonaparte on Dogs
This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to…
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