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![Lewis Carroll](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1571554989i/8164._UX200_CR0,41,200,200_.jpg)
“Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. 'Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on. 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
'I don't much care where—' said Alice.
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
'—so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.”
― Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
'I don't much care where—' said Alice.
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
'—so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.”
― Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
![William S. Burroughs](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1459243207i/4462369._UY200_CR20,0,200,200_.jpg)
“A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.”
― The Cat Inside
― The Cat Inside
![Richard Dawkins](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1377030297i/1194._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first step would be to build up a critical mass of those willing to 'come out,' thereby encouraging others to do so. Even if they can't be herded, cats in sufficient numbers can make a lot of noise and they cannot be ignored.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
![Andrew Vachss](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1325086991i/36764._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?”
― Safe House
― Safe House
“There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.”
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![Lilian Jackson Braun](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206733773i/21625.jpg)
“Cats are cats . . . the world over!
These intelligent, peace-loving, four-footed friends- who are without prejudice, without hate, without greed- may someday teach us something.
-James Mackintosh Qwilleran”
― The Cat Who Saw Stars
These intelligent, peace-loving, four-footed friends- who are without prejudice, without hate, without greed- may someday teach us something.
-James Mackintosh Qwilleran”
― The Cat Who Saw Stars
![Genki Kawamura](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1611495818i/9851516._UX200_CR0,13,200,200_.jpg)
“Cats and humans have been partners for over ten thousand years. And what you realize when you've lived with a cat for a long time is that we may think we own them, but that's not the way it is. They simply allow us the pleasure of their company.”
― 世界から猫が消えたなら
― 世界から猫が消えたなら
![T.S. Eliot](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1612500008i/18540._UX200_CR0,90,200,200_.jpg)
“The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
Such as Victor or Jonathan, or George or Bill Bailey -
All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter -
But all of them sensible everyday names.
But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum -
Names that never belong to more than one cat.
But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover -
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.”
― Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
Such as Victor or Jonathan, or George or Bill Bailey -
All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter -
But all of them sensible everyday names.
But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum -
Names that never belong to more than one cat.
But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover -
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.”
― Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
![Cassandra Clare](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1689347318i/150038._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Honestly I don't know why i have these parties"
"Because of your cat"
"That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort”
― City of Bones
"Because of your cat"
"That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort”
― City of Bones
![Susanna Clarke](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1453496946i/8842._UX200_CR0,6,200,200_.jpg)
“For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
![Robin McKinley](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1643645900i/5339._UX200_CR0,11,200,200_.jpg)
“Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic—which was what all magic was—it was rather soothing to have all the same qualities wrapped up in a small, furry, generally attractive bundle that looked more or less the same from day to day and might, if it were in a good mood, sit on your knee and purr. Magic never sat on anybody’s knee and purred.”
― Spindle's End
― Spindle's End
![P.G. Wodehouse](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198684105i/7963._UX200_CR0,39,200,200_.jpg)
“I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of the front door; and all that was left of the mobscene was the head of a whacking big fish, lying on the carpet and staring up at me in a rather austere sort of way, as if it wanted a written explanation and apology.”
― A Wodehouse Bestiary
― A Wodehouse Bestiary
![Melanie Joy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1517329296i/1312252._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“It's just the way things are. Take a moment to consider this statement. Really think about it. We send one species to the butcher and give our love and kindness to another apparently for no reason other than because it's the way things are. When our attitudes and behaviors towards animals are so inconsistent, and this inconsistency is so unexamined, we can safely say we have been fed absurdities. It is absurd that we eat pigs and love dogs and don't even know why. Many of us spend long minutes in the aisle of the drugstore mulling over what toothpaste to buy. Yet most of don't spend any time at all thinking about what species of animal we eat and why. Our choices as consumers drive an industry that kills ten billion animals per year in the United States alone. If we choose to support this industry and the best reason we can come up with is because it's the way things are, clearly something is amiss. What could cause an entire society of people to check their thinking caps at the door--and to not even realize they're doing so? Though this question is quite complex, the answer is quite simple: carnism.”
― Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism
― Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism
![Louis-Ferdinand Céline](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1474566527i/7869._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“I'd take cyanide no problem if it was that or throwing a cat out in the street, even a moth-eaten, mangy, caterwauling pain in the ass! I'd rather have the thing in bed with me than see it suffer on my account...though when it comes to human beings, I'm only interested in the sick...the ones who can stand up are nothing but mounds of vice and spite...I don't get mixed up in their schemes...”
― Normance
― Normance
![Gillian Flynn](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1232123231i/2383._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
![Richelle Mead](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1270374609i/137902._UX200_CR0,39,200,200_.jpg)
“Aubrey, crouching on a nearby counter, watched me with squinty eyes, apparently pondering why anyone would willingly immerse themselves in water ever, let alone for extended periods of time. ”
― Succubus Blues
― Succubus Blues
![Gail Carriger](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1476925456i/2891665._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Madame Lefoux accepted a cup of tea and sat on another little settee, next to the relocated calico cat. The cat clearly believed Madame Lefoux was there to provide chin scratches. Madame Lefoux provided.”
― Changeless
― Changeless
![Kendare Blake](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1276645449i/4086715._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Fucking nightmares.
My heart starts to slow down. Glancing down at the floor, I see Tybalt, who is glaring at me with a puffed-up tail. I wonder if he had been sleeping on my chest and I catapulted him off when I woke up. I don't remember, but I wish that I did, because it would've been hilarious.”
― Anna Dressed in Blood
My heart starts to slow down. Glancing down at the floor, I see Tybalt, who is glaring at me with a puffed-up tail. I wonder if he had been sleeping on my chest and I catapulted him off when I woke up. I don't remember, but I wish that I did, because it would've been hilarious.”
― Anna Dressed in Blood
![William S. Burroughs](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1459243207i/4462369._UY200_CR20,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.”
― The Cat Inside
― The Cat Inside
![Terry Pratchett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1235562205i/1654._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. Men made dogs, they took wolves and gave them human things--unnecessary intelligence, names, a desire to belong, and a twitching inferiority complex. All dogs dream wolf dreams, and know they're dreaming of biting their Maker. Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog...”
― Men at Arms
― Men at Arms
![Louise Rennison](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1217261779i/65189.jpg)
“And the kittykats would have to erect scaffolding and a pulley to get him down. Mind you, I wouldn't put that past them. Sometimes when they are behind the sofa supposedly purring, I think they are drilling.”
― Startled by His Furry Shorts
― Startled by His Furry Shorts
![Beverley Nichols](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1221411232i/59389._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.”
― Cats' A-Z
― Cats' A-Z
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