@kittehboi curates animal-related quotes.
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Quote: Bob Mortimer on Cats
I can’t remember ever cooking food to impress a woman. The idea’s quite cheesy and sort of makes my skin crawl. But I sometimes make a special effort to impress my cats, with chicken liver or something. It’s tricky to know if a cat’s impressed. They might give me a little look, a glimpse at…
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Quote: William S. Burroughs on Cats as Familiars
Cats didn’t start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.—William S. Burroughs, “The Cat Inside“
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Quote: Oleg Gazenko On Laika
Work with animals is a source of suffering to all of us. We treat them like babies who cannot speak. The more time passes, the more I’m sorry about it. We shouldn’t have done it. We did not learn enough from the mission to justify the death of the dog.— Russian scientist Oleg Gazenko, 1998,…
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Quote: Milan Kundera on Dogs and Eden
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring—it was peace.— Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being“
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Quote: H. P. Lovecraft on Cats
The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.— H. P. Lovecraft, “Cats and Dogs“, in “Something…
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Quote: Groucho Marx on Books
Outside of a dog a book is man’s best friend because inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.— Groucho Marx
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Quote: Franz Kafka on Leopards
Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony. — Franz Kafka
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Quote: Ernest Hemingway on Cats
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.— Ernest Hemingway
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Animals in Shakespeare
Did you know that William Shakespeare (April 1564 – April 23, 1616) was one of the first playwrights to write in English for regular people, rather than in French (the Lingua franca) or Latin? Shakespeare wrote lots of animals into his plays. Here are just a few. If you haven’t read Shakespeare, download the totally…
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