Cat Quotes by Stephen King

8 Cat quotes by Stephen King

Stephen King's knack for tension surfaces in eight short reflections on cats. The snippets hint at his eerie, atmospheric style.

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But still, sometimes, in the heart of winter when the light outside seemed yellow- sleepy, like a cat curled up on a…

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There were no horror movies or horror books to speak of in the '40s. I picked the '50s because that pretty well…

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Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of…

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And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?

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It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who…

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She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the…

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A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If…

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His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said…

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