Top 28 Paul Gallico Quotes

#1. And when the sun sets ... then the night magic spreads out above your head; worlds and universes a-borning and a-dying - stars and planets and galaxies. And the bigger the telescope they can make, and the farther into the beyond they are able to penetrate, the greater grows the mystery.

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#2. It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint ... office parties, artificial ... Christmas trees ... but future generations in search of their lost Christmases may well remember its innocence; yes, and its beauty, too.

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#3. No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

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#4. If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

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#5. God I have been - God I am. But quite frankly, sometimes it is all just a little too much for one small cat.

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#6. She could not see how much there was to live for, that she was young and that one could build anew upon the ashes of failure

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#7. A cat doesn't linger over making it's desires felt.

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#8. Kittens can happen to anyone.

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#9. There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of its rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it.

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#10. No one has ever been able to discover how they make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never be revealed.

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#11. Want something hard enough and work for it, and you'll get it, but when you get it it will either prove to be not wholly what you wanted, or something will happen to soil it.

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#12. If you like cats and have some, you get kittens; and if you like kittens and enjoy having them about, they grow up and you get more cats.

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#13. This is her home now--of her own free will.

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#14. Japanese goldfish,
With your gossamer tail,
You are the loveliest creature
I have ever seen."
"Japanese kitten,
Put your tongue back in where it belongs
And go away.
I know exactly what you are thinking.

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#15. Ha ha! How do you like my storm?

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#16. When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally..

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#17. The setting sun had turned the blue sky a brilliant orange, then soft pink merging to pearl; the plum velvet of night had come out of the east, spangled with stars.

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#18. Hers was the bliss of one who knew that at last she was off upon the adventure at the end of which lay her heart's desire'.

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#19. No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

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#20. When in doubt - wash!

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#21. Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment.

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#22. Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

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#23. In the very existence of this book we have a most concrete example of the manner in which at least one of these marvellous creatures [cats], acquiring both an editor and a publisher, has advanced the eventual complete feline take-over of the human race.

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#24. One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.

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#25. They were worlds apart in everything but the simplicity of their humanity, and so they were really not apart at all.

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#26. Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

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#27. Nothing in life ever was a complete and one hundred per cent success, but often one could well afford to settle for less, and this would seem to be the greatest lesson one could learn in life.

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#28. You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

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