Paul Gallico Quotes

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• If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.
• Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.
• Kittens can happen to anyone.
• A cat doesn't linger over making it's desires felt.
• Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment.
• No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as…
• It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do…
• It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial . .…
• There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of its rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by…
• It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.
• When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had…
• One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against…
• If you like cats and have some, you get kittens; and if you like kittens and enjoy having them about, they grow up and you…
• No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly…
• You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only…
• Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

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