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When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas…
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it…
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more…
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws…
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,…
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes…
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Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it…
— Dilys Laing
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At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs.
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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No cat purrs unless someone is around to listen.
— Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle…
— Brian P. Cleary
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The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
— Don Marquis
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Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because…
— Wendy Mass
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I was about to look away when he reached across the seat, touched my jaw with his long, strong, beautiful fingers, and…
— Karen Marie Moning
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What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the…
— Doris Lessing
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My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I…
— John Steinbeck
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Lick that kitty cat until she purrs meow, beat it up so bad she wanna curse me out.
— Trey Songz
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