"It has long been a theory of mine……" — Cleveland Amory
"It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers."
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28 Quotes by Cleveland Amory
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As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience…
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What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.
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...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.
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Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand,…
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Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that…
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I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.
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For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.
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Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social…
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You do not need to belong to the cat for a long time to realize the main thing that cats…
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Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for…
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You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.
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The facts of life are very stubborn things.
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More Authors Quotes
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to…
— Francis Bacon
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of…
— Joseph Addison
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
— John Berger
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't…
— Alain de Botton
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Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's…
— Nick Cave
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There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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We must be authors of the history of our age.
— Madeleine Albright
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among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading…
— Joseph Addison
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Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends…
— Richard Bach
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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom…
— Albert Camus
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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author…
— Stephen Vizinczey
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