The Cat Who Walks Through Walls is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.
Gwen Novak (Hazel Stone); chapter 18, p. 230
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
Context: The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it — once you can honestly say, "I don't know", then it becomes possible to get at the truth.
“I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not”
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“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.”
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“Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.”
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
Richard Ames; chapter 3, p. 27
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Source: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985), p. 564
Source: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985), p. 564
Richard Ames; chapter 16, p. 200
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
“A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.”
Richard Ames; chapter 9, p. 108
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
“How can you argue with a woman who won't?”
Richard Ames; chapter 19, p. 235
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
“Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.”
credited to Lowell Stone, M.D., born 2144; chapter 15, p. 185
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
“Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness.”
Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.
Richard Ames; chapter 16, p. 200
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
