"love is a hawk with velvet claws love……" — Kurt Vonnegut

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• I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a… — Charles Baudelaire
• In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws… — A. S. Byatt
• Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils… — Oscar Wilde
• The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws… — Lewis Carroll
• Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand. — Wislawa Szymborska
• Nature, red in tooth and claw. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon… — George Orwell
• To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this… — Henri Frederic Amiel
• I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a… — Fred Bear
• If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro — Bruce Fogle
• As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not… — Thomas Huxley

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