The Quotable Cat Lover - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402716451 ISBN 13: 9781402716454

Publisher: Main Street Pr, 2004

An unexpectedly wide range of writers weigh in on the feline, from Twain, Coward, Dickens, and Beatrix Potter to Hemingway, Yeats, Garrison Keillor, and Erma Bombeck. There are thought-provoking and delightful proverbs, too—such as the sly saying: “When cat and mouse agree, the farmer has no chance.” An irresistible delight for cat lovers everywhere.

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Review:

"'Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function'. - Garrison Keillor 'Men prefer pets they can control, like dogs. They can't handle that 'get stuffed' stare from a cat'. - Celia Hammond Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself' - Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories 'It is assumed that I love cats. It makes as much sense to say that I love cats as to say that a heroin addict loves heroin'. - Germaine Greer, Confessions Of A Cat Addict' 'Now I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance'. - James Thurber"

From the Back Cover:

The Quotable Cat Lover is a discriminating selection of the most pithy, profound, and humorous statements on record about 'the tiger on the hearth.' Judging from the amount of thought devoted over the centuries to figuring out what goes through their furry little heads, it is clear that cats fascinate us. In this delightful collection, Charles Elliott reveals an unexpectedly wide range of writers and personalities whom, it turns out, have been cat-people (or sometimes cat-haters, but there's room for them too), including: Roy Blount, Jr., Noel Coward, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Anne Morrow Lindburgh, Camille Paglia, Beatrix Potter, William Shakespeare, P. G. Wodehouse, and many more. Entertaining and decorated with lovely illustrations, this is the perfect book to read with a cat curled up on one's lap: the perfect gift for any feline fancier. (5 7/8 X 6 7/8, 276 pages, illustrations)

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