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"Like all pure creatures, cats are practical."
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"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."
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"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."
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"Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies."
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"The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals."
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"When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether."
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"I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up."
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"If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet."
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"The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery."
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"Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans."
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"I'm afraid of animals."
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"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer."
Mind
"You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live."
Solitude
"Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage."
Acting
"The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible."
Individuality
"To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know."
Poetry
"May 4, 1985. I am packing for a short trip to New York to discuss the cat book with Brion. In the front room where the kittens are kept, Calico Jane is nursing one black kitten. I pick up my Tourister. It seems heavy. I look inside and there are her other four kittens."Take care of my babies. Take them with you wherever you go."
Care
"It was Christmas Day and Danny the Car Wiper hit the street junksick and broke after seventy-two hours in the precinct jail. It was a clear bright day, but there was warmth in the sun. Danny shivered with an inner cold. He turned up the collar of his worn, greasy black overcoat. This beat benny wouldn't pawn for a deuce, he thought."
Life
"All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someone else's nose to prove they had been somewhere or done something. And I thought someday everyone in America will suddenly jump up and say, 'I don't take any shit!' and start pushing and cursing and clawing at the man next to him."
Freedom
"My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people, which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company."
Loneliness
"Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death."
Mortality
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