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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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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…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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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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