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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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Joseph Wood Krutch
Age: 76 †
Born: 1893
Born: November 25
Died: 1970
Died: May 22
Biographer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Naturalist
Theatre Critic
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Purring
Feline
Kitten
Cats
Belong
Cat
Eye
Things

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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.
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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
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Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.
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It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.
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There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time.
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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.
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The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
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We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.
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When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
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Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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