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If only cats grew into kittens.


Robert A. M. Stern

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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Japanese goldfish,
With your gossamer tail,
You are the loveliest creature
I have eve...
PAUL GALLICO A kitten is, in the animal world, what a rosebud is in the garden.
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LLOYD ALEXANDER Puppies and kittens are both great. Cats and dogs are not for me.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.
ELIZABETH BEAR I hope people don't take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them.
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CHAMPFLEURY I sometimes think the Pussy-Willows grey
Are Angel Kittens who have lost their way,
And ev...
OLIVER HERFORD The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern....
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CELIA HAMMOND The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, bec...
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ROBERT A. M. STERN My cat speaks sign language with her tail.
ROBERT A. M. STERN Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.
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ROBERT A. M. STERN I'm from New York, so I'm a big Howard Stern fan.
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MICHAEL HARRISON I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings.
K. A. APPLEGATE Mealtime

"A mousie squealing in a trap
Woke me from my morning nap.
Wasn...
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LINDA SUCHOWSKI I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be.
DON IMUS When I have said "If Only", I realised what precious a moment have slipped away.
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GARY F EVANS... That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And...
NEIL GAIMAN What if he's a psychopath who tries to stuff kittens in ATMs?
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EVANNA LYNCH A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations.
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LISA YOUNG People often justify letting their cats breed because they know they can find homes for the kittens....
KIRA SWAIM If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... We put the cats into a fish tank.
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ERIN HUNTER If only…the saddest words in the English language.
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GUY PEARCE ...I discovered a small kitten in the garden, which apparently had been abandoned by its mother. I p...
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LEE BERGER It shows that it was not only big cats our ancestors had to be afraid of. It was also these creature...
LEE BERGER She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. DAVID WONG Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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RAHMA KRAMBO If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
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AL BENNER I bet you think things through, right? Accept candy
from strangers and get into vans with a sig...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Howard Stern was the only one that was able to get through to me.
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'You can say that again!' agreed Gr...
ERIN HUNTER I shall report this, and in the meantime the animal can be taken away by one of the porters.’
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BETTY WHITE We could have been the greatest love story ever told.

If only you'd stayed in character.
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DAVID REMNICK Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake p...
HOWARD NEMEROV I'm an avid animal lover. When I was 16, I wanted to be a vet or a zookeeper. I grew up with ani...
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TASHA TURNER The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
LACEY CHABERT TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
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JENNY LEWIS If cats could talk, they wouldn't.
NAN PORTER I grew up very fast as a young girl, but I grew slowly into my womanhood.
ROBIN WRIGHT They all seemed hungry, happy, and healthy enough in their buzzing—oh the days were hot, and the n...
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STEVEN ERIKSON But... it's a nice day today, the birds is singing, there's stuff like... kittens and stuff, and the...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI There’s no such thing as free kittens.
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EDDIE MARSAN I've always said a romance hero can be deeply flawed... as long as he's willing to rush into...
TERESA MEDEIROS Yes, if it came with a tag saying that Robert Blake is a murderer.
ERIC DUBIN You should only say good things when somebody leaves. Robert has gone - good!
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ROBERT M. DRAKE How could I live above the water or breathe under it. How could I swim in darkness consumed in an oc...
ROBERT M. DRAKE I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let ...
ROBERT M. DRAKE She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved.
ROBERT M. DRAKE With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.
ROBERT M. DRAKE These are things you should notice anyway. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the si...
ROBERT M. PERSIG Persons tend to think and feel exclusively in one mode or the other and in doing so tend to misunder...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of e...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on “good” rather than �...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Quality is the Buddha.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you ...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not t...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Phædrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the g...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle beca...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphem...
ROBERT M. PRICE The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

The more you look the more you see.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG But unlike Paul, his alternatives present him with a "double avoidance conflict"-neither is acceptab...
ROBERT M. PRICE The Warrenite Christian is like a Star Wars geek who dressed up in costume and dearly wishes he live...
ROBERT M. PRICE But if subjective pietism is not the real crux of this all-important Gospel, if it is instead belief...
ROBERT M. PRICE On any mechanical repair job ego comes in for rough treatment. You're always being fooled, you're al...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG I talked yesterday about caring, I care about these moldy old riding gloves. I smile at them flying ...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG The machine itself receives some of the same feelings. With over 27,000 on it it's getting to be som...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Not everyone understands what a completely rational process this is, this maintenance of a motorcycl...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that throug...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Actually I've never seen a cycle-maintenance problem complex enough really to require full-scale for...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG I will never be at ease while watching the sunset, knowing our stories will never end with the same ...
ROBERT M. DRAKE Kad jedna osoba pati od iluzije,
to se naziva poremećenošću uma. Kad mnogo ljudi pati od ilu...
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