“.. for the dead fish was striped like a cat and the sky was striped like the fish and the conch was whorled like an ear and the beach was ribbed like a dog's mouth and the movables in the surf splintered and crashed like the walls of Jericho.”
The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)
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American novelist and short story writer 1912–1982Related quotes

As quoted in Playboy (February 1985)
1980s

“Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.”
Desmond Morris (2009), Catwatching. p. 2

“You're dog water, boxed like a fish. I set this up and you lost so fast.”
Source: Words during battle, Quoted in Francis Parkman's Wolfe

“We are like fish
In this vast sea.
And Satan fishes
For you and me.”
"Monish" (translated in J. Leftwich. Golden Peacock. Sci-Art, 1939, p. 56.), 1888.

Interview on Rileys' News http://www.rileys.co.uk/news/240.

“He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.”
Source: Anna Karenina
Erika Jayne interview to SheKnows http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/810403/erika-jayne-exclusive-interview/page:2 (2009)