Carl Van Vechten Quotes
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Catnip is vodka and whisky to most cats.
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...with a cat you stand on much the same footing that you stand with a fine and dignified friend; if you forfeit his respect and…
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The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.
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Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.
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The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
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One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I…
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A thing of beauty is a boy forever.
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Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.
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Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?
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Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.
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I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.
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Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.
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There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is…
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There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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