James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"My Senegalese Birds and Siamese Cats", Holiday Magazine; reprinted in Lanterns & Lances (1961).
From Lanterns and Lances
“Nothing but man was really cruel, vindictive, except perhaps the loathly cat.”
— Olaf Stapledon, book Sirius
Source: Sirius (1944), Chapter VIII Sirius at Cambridge.
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