Paul Gallico Quotes

• Kittens can happen to anyone.

  Paul Gallico

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  Suzanne Szasz, Paul Gallico (1964). “The silent miaow: a manual for kittens, strays, and homeless cats”

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

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  Beautiful, Cat, Lovely

  Paul Gallico (1972). “Honorable Cat”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• 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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  Dog, Hate, Cat

  Paul Gallico (1972). “Honorable Cat”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• 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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  Work, Facts, Craftsman

  Paul Gallico (1961). “Further Confessions of a Story Writer: Stories Old and New”

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• It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.

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  Believe, Character, Writing

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

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  Golf, Men, Handicaps

  Paul Gallico (2015). “Farewell to Sport”, p.165, Open Road Media

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• 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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  Family, Two, People

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• 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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  Motivational, Hockey, Men

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• 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.

  Paul Gallico

  Inspirational, Rude, Insulting

  The New York Times, January 14, 1962.

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• 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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  Hero, Discovery, Missing

  Paul Gallico (2015). “Farewell to Sport”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.

  Paul Gallico

  Veins, Littles, Pages

  Paul Gallico (1946). “Confessions of a Story Writer”, New York, A. A. Knopf

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• 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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  Growing Up, Cat, Kitten

  Paul Gallico (1972). “Honorable Cat”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• No one has ever been able to discover how they [cats] 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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  Cat, Secret, Sound

  Suzanne Szasz, Paul Gallico (1964). “The silent miaow: a manual for kittens, strays, and homeless cats”

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

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  Cat, Desire, Felt

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• 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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  Baseball, Punishment, Games

  Paul Gallico (2015). “Farewell to Sport”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• 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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  Beauty, Party, Cities

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