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“The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.”
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Carl Van Vechten
#Cat Quotes
#Rights Quotes
#People Quotes
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“As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.”
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Carl Van Vechten
Source : Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.279, Courier Corporation
#Inspiration Quotes
#Cat Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
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“...with a cat you stand on much the same footing that you stand with a fine and dignified friend; if you forfeit his respect and confidence the relationship suffers. The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.”
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Carl Van Vechten
Source : Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.2, Courier Corporation
#Cat Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Suffering Quotes
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“The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.”
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Carl Van Vechten
#Cat Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Remember Quotes
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“Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.”
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Carl Van Vechten
Source : Carl Van Vechten (1922). “Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works”
#Cities Quotes
#Paris Quotes
#Care Quotes
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“I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.”
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Carl Van Vechten
#Matisse Quotes
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“Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.”
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Carl Van Vechten
Source : Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.30, Courier Corporation
#Mistake Quotes
#Cat Quotes
#Making Mistakes Quotes
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“Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.”
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Carl Van Vechten
Source : Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.3, Courier Corporation
#Cat Quotes
#Gnosis Quotes
#Degrees Quotes
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“A thing of beauty is a boy forever.”
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Carl Van Vechten
Source : Carl Van Vechten (1920). “Interpreters”
#Boys Quotes
#Forever Quotes
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“Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?”
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Carl Van Vechten
Source : Carl Van Vechten (1922). “Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works”
#Littles Quotes
#Pay Quotes
#Too Much Quotes
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“The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming ***** is almost beyond credence.”
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Carl Van Vechten
#Cat Quotes
#People Quotes
#Imagination Quotes
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“A cat is never vulgar.”
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Carl Van Vechten
Source : Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.177, Courier Corporation
#Cat Quotes
#Vulgar Quotes
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“One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.”
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Carl Van Vechten
#Art Quotes
#Cat Quotes
#Greek Quotes
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“Catnip is vodka and whisky to most cats.”
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Carl Van Vechten
Source : Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.17, Courier Corporation
#Cat Quotes
#Vodka Quotes
#Whisky Quotes
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“Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.”
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Carl Van Vechten
#Cat Quotes
#World Quotes
#Cleanliness Quotes
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“The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.”
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Carl Van Vechten
Source : Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.28, Courier Corporation
#Mean Quotes
#Cat Quotes
#Animal Quotes
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“There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.”
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Carl Van Vechten
#Two Quotes
#Long Quotes
#People Quotes
