“Nothing divided people more deeply than how they felt about cats.”
Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) English novelist, poet, critic, teacher
Source: Difficulties with Girls (1988), Ch. 19, p. 274
“Nothing was better for you than humiliation, for there was nothing you felt more deeply.”
J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 130
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)
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