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Cathy Douglas

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Cathy’s Quotes

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: animals, cats, dogs, equality, pigs, respect

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“I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.”
― Alan Moore, Promethea, Vol. 5

tags: deep

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“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing

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“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
― Simone Weil

tags: ethics, evil, good, morality, reality

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