"I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat."

-- Lawrence Block

#Mean Quotes #Cat Quotes #Elk Quotes

“I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.”
“Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.”

Source : Quoted in Oliver Wendell Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1857 - 1858)
“The only queen I ever dressed was Eva PerÃ³n.”
“I was analyzing the guys' nonverbal communication.”
“The choiceless truth of who you are is revealed to be permanently here permeating everything. Not a thing and not separate from anything.”
“Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.”
“You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.”
“It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.”

Source : Italo Calvino (2012). “Under the Jaguar Sun”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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