"Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings."

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Source : "Attributed to Oliver Herford in The Reader's Digest, Volume 121 (p. 118)". 1982.

Oliver Herford

#Love Quotes #Dog Quotes #Hate Quotes

“The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.”
“There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.”
“It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.”
“The original interest in making pictures that don't directly depict came around '97 or '98, when I felt there was such an acceleration of images in the world, and that was before Flickr and so on. So I felt a need to slow down how one consumes photographs. With the abstract pictures, I was engaged in trying to find new images, but in practice, it was a bit like throwing a wrench in the spokes. The omnipresence of photography is at a level that it has never been in the history of the world. I feel really curious to now reengage and see what the camera can do for me.”
“My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.”
“You are not saved for the sole purpose of going to heaven; you are saved to finish your assignment on earth”
“I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.”
“the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded wings that might open if someone loved him; he still hoped, probably, in a butterfly's unthinking way, for spring and warmth. How the wings ache, folded so, waiting; that is, they ache until they atrophy.”

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