Patricia Moyes Quotes
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one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.
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I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.
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It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.
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Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.
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I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.
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suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.
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Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.
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Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold their tattered banners upright. October was at the gates and autumn was in full retreat.
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I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature.
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Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.
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it is perfectly possible to converse with any cat, from prize-winning Siamese to alley tabby. Humans who are slow learners may start with a highly articulate Siamese and progress in time to the more sensitive and difficult business of talking to scared strays. Other people, naturally gifted, can talk to any cat right away.
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The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.
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Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away.
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