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Carl Van Vechten Inspirational Quotes (14)

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Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.
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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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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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Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.
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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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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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Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.
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A thing of beauty is a boy forever.
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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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Note 4. For these and other reasons the cat is also very hard to photograph. The best photographs are instantaneous, as the mere breathing of a cat will blur the fur in a time exposure.
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The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.
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Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?
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A cat is never vulgar.
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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.
Carl Van Vechten