Cat Quote by Lawrence Block

“I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.” quote by Lawrence Block — Download Open image

“I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.”

Lawrence Block

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If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.

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“She made love with the freshness of an impatient virgin and the ingenuity of a sex-scarred whore.”

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“that would have hidden the decades of filth that had left their stamp upon the wooden floor.”

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And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

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I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

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“Your unconscious mind takes the things you can’t handle and plays with them while you sleep until some of the sharp corners are worn…

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Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

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I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

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In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a loaf of bread and gave it to you, you would only be tried for receiving, a crime punishable by forty lashes with the cat or the dog, whichever was handy. If you stole a dog…

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