"The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends..."

-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Cat Quotes #Suits Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.”
“The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.”
“If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.”
“Consequentialist theories begin with a very simple and undoubtedly valid point: Every action aims at a future end, and is seen as a means to it.”
“No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.”
“But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.”
“Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's 'supposed' to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.”
“Scripture would not only solve the individual and family divisions, but it would also solve the ecclesiastical confusion.”

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