"How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap?"

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Source : Derek Tangye (2014). “A Cat in the Window: Tales from a Cornish Flower Farm”, p.37, Hachette UK

Derek Tangye

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“Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.”

Source : Dawn Powell (1995). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931-1965”
“A sturdy lad . . . who teams it, farms it . . . and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls.”
“I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.”

Source : Donna VanLiere (2012). “The Good Dream”, p.213, Macmillan
“To remain standing one often has to fall.”
“I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.”
“The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 413-15, De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti Panegyris, CCXCVII, 1922.
“I was genuinely starstruck when I met Kermit the Frog. Like many stars here tonight, he's a lot shorter in real life.”

Source : "What they were saying at the Oscars", www.sfgate.com. March 2, 2012.
“Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had kept proportion. She had told a little of her grim secret to her friends, but not too much; she had shut up her heart--almost, but not entirely. It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.”

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