“The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.”
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Suzanne Collins 554
American television writer and novelist 1962Related quotes

Humanities interview (1996)
Context: As a former soldier, what struck me is the absolutely heartless way that war was being pursued by the Americans, partly I think because of the race problem. The Vietnamese to us were not merely communists, they were nasty little yellow people without souls. It didn't matter how we blew them up or how we bombed them or how we burned their villages and so on. I was very struck by that. And one thing I was trying to do in The Great War and Modern Memory was to awaken a sort of civilian sympathy for the people who suffer on the ground in wartime, and that's really an act that I've been performing, oh, ever since 1945, I suppose.

A Foreword to Krazy (1946)
Context: A humbly poetic, gently clownlike, supremely innocent, and illimitably affectionate creature (slightly resembling a child's drawing of a cat, but gifted with the secret grace and obvious clumsiness of a penguin on terra firma) who is never so happy as when egoist-mouse, thwarting altruist-dog, hits her in the head with a brick. Dog hates mouse and worships "cat", mouse despises "cat" and hates dog, "cat" hates no one and loves mouse.
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1990s

In The Babe Ruth Story; reproduced in Babe Ruth: His Life and Times https://books.google.com/books?id=iBZIirjqJpwC&q=i%22i+think+my+mother+hated+me%22+%22babe+Ruth%22&dq=i%22i+think+my+mother+hated+me%22+%22babe+Ruth%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjRx8u24fPQAhXGWCYKHdq-CQIQ6AEIFjAA (1995) by Paul Adomites, p. 22; and in "Being Babe Ruth's Daughter" http://grantland.com/features/being-babe-ruth-daughter/ by Jane Leavy, at Grantland (January 3, 2012)
"Mother the Wardrobe is Full of Infantrymen", from The Mersey Sound (1967)