Quotes by Carl Van Vechten

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• As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

  ― Carl Van Vechten
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• The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.

  ― Carl Van Vechten
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• The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.

  ― Carl Van Vechten
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• The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

  ― Carl Van Vechten
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• There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.

  ― Carl Van Vechten
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Subjects in these quotes:

• over-estimated
• intelligence
• complicate
• advantage
• visible
• support

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