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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

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I felt like a still live fish on ice in a butcher’s counter on Friday morning.- On Cats

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and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter

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The cat is the beutiful devil. And here we can use the word, even without the “a.”- from a Dec. 21 1960, a letter to Sheri Martinelli"On Cats

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The factories, the jails, the drunken days and nights, the hospitals have weakened and shaken me like a mouse in the mouth of a hip-cat: life.- from a...more

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Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just ...more

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when I am feelinglowall i have to do iswatch my catsand mycouragereturns

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(the whole world is at thethroat of the world,everybody feels angry,short-changed, cheated,everybody is despondent,disillusioned.)I welcomed shots of ...more

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Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, justcats andrain, rain and cats, very nice, goodnight.

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sleeping in the rain helps me forget things like I am going todie and you are going to die and the cats are going to diebut it's still good to stretch...more

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The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be disco...more

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aboutour argument tonightwhatever it wasaboutand no matterhow unhappyit made usfeelremember thatthere is acatsomewhereadjusting to thespace of itselfw...more

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Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.

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she slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't feelalone.

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I am sad for the dead and I am sad for the livingbut not for my 5 cats