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"I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute,& if they are cute they rapidly outgrow it."
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"A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic."
"There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference."
"I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day."
"I like simple men and complicated women."
"Art is good, but happiness is better."
"I think I'd rather be liked than loved. It just seems as if more criticism and chastening is shown to those we love, while kind manners and compassion are reserved for those we simply like. So, I hope you like me."
"You can pay for whatever you want, but I just want to warn you that I prefer to stay at places that don't start or end with the word 'motel."
"I wasn't particularly worried; running is overrated anyway, and sport only makes you sweaty and smug and wears out the knees."
"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all."
"I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis."
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"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing."
"Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way."
"The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits."
"No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought."
"How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven."
"And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food ... some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not."
"For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling "vaguely guilty."
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