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"I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other."
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"Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function."
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"Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old."
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"Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established."
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"The dog is a gentleman, I hope to go to his heaven not man's."
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"Nobody ever kicked a dog wagging its tail."
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"Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name."
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"My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it."
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"We are like other animals; we live and die as they do. If there is any afterlife, I believe we are in together."
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"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."
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"Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself."
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"Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools."
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"The feeble soul merely whines and complains."
Soul
"Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death."
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"In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune."
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"Character, I am sure, lies in the genes."
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"My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer."
Being
"My childhood was appalling."
Family
"The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race."
Soul
"Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it."
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"Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it."
Woman
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