"We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us."

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Source : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (2002). “The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: A Journey Into the Feline Heart”, p.26, Ballantine Books

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#Cat Quotes #Needs Quotes

“When a person is dispossessed of his land, there is a reaction and you have to deal with the reaction properly. You just can't deal with the reaction by giving him money.”
“I have read and re-read the Arusha Declaration and found nothing wrong with it except perhaps replacing a few commas here and there... it was clear for some of us that it would only be a mad man who would stand up and defend the Arusha Declaration.”
“I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.”
“I deliver babies for a living. I have certainly delivered more than 150 children in my lifetime, yet I'm always puzzled when I hear that one of those children I delivered has autism.”
“Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.”
“One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.”
“Supercars are supposed to run over Arthur Scargill and then run over him again for good measure. They are designed to melt ice caps, kill the poor, poison the water table, destroy the ozone layer, decimate indigenous wildlife, recapture the Falkland Islands and turn the entire third world into a huge uninhabitable desert, all that before they nicked all the oil in the world”
“Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.”

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