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#1

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer

tags: attributed-no-source, cats, life, music

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#2

“Meow” means “woof” in cat.”
― George Carlin

tags: animals, cats, dogs, humor, language

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#3

“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

tags: affection, atheism, cats, dogs, food, god, pets, religion, shelter, water

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#4

“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.”
― Mark Twain

tags: animals, cats, dogs, grace, reticence

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#5

“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: cats, gifts, love

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#6

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: cats

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#7

“I’m trying to translate what my cat says and put it in a book, but how many homonyms are there for meow?”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

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#8

“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”
― Jean Cocteau

tags: cats, home

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#9

“Time spent with a cat is never wasted.”
― Colette

tags: cats, company, time, waste

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#10

“Of course, maybe I'd end up like one of those crazy old people with, like, sixty cats. And one day, the neighbors would complain about the smell, and it would turn out I'd died and the cats had eaten me.

Still, it might be nice to have a cat.”
― Alex Flinn

tags: cats

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#11

“I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

tags: cats

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#12

“I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

tags: cats, dogs

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#13

“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.”
― Robertson Davies

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#14

“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.”
― Jules Verne

tags: cats

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#15

“Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

tags: animals, cats, life

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#16

“As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.”
― Cleveland Amory, The Cat Who Came for Christmas

tags: cats

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#17

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

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#18

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world

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#19

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: books, journey, reading, travel

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#20

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: travel

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#21

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel

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#22

“Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this."
"Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish."
"God, you're the best," I told him.
"I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel," he answered.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: love, travel, wish

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#23

“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: books, reading, travel

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#24

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: glitter, journey, shine, tolkien, travel, wander, wanderlust

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#25

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
― mary anne radmacher

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#26

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. ”
― Lin Yutang

tags: travel

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#27

“It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.”
― Jim Hinckley, Route 66 Backroads: Your Guide to Scenic Side Trips & Adventures from the Mother Road

tags: history, inspirational, travel

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#28

“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. ”
― Agnes Repplier

tags: travel

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#29

“Every hundred feet the world changes”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

tags: change, travel

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#30

“Fare well we call to hearth and hall
Though wind may blow and rain may fall
We must away ere break of day
Over the wood and mountain tall

To Rivendell where Elves yet dwell
In glades beneath the misty fell
Through moor and waste we ride in haste
And wither then we cannot tell

With foes ahead behind us dread
Beneath the sky shall be our bed
Until at last our toil be sped
Our journey done, our errand sped
We must away! We must away!
We ride before the break of day!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: poetry, travel

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