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1 " I don't even have a dog. I tell people I'm allergic so they won't think less of me. Instead I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of responsibility required. "
― Anna Quindlen , Rise and Shine
2 " I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility. "
3 " Nearly everyone I meet expresses deep sympathy about the fact that I have never married. Sometimes I wonder why. "
4 " The rituals surrounding vacations among Manhattan's wealthiest and best-connected citizens are strange and specific. By vacations I don't mean country houses, which are part of the regular ebb and flow of life and which are frequently subjects for complaint - The kids never want to go! The caretaker missed the roof leak! The pipes froze! - as though having a six-thousand-square-foot, cedar-shingled cottage on five acres overlooking the ocean is nothing more or less than a constant test of character. "
5 " It sounded so promising. As if this would be the day. The day to ride a bike without training wheels. To make it through the afternoon without a stained blouse and a scolding. To persuade the girl next door to like me. To meet a man. To make a mint. To prosper. To love. To live fearlessly. "
6 " as though I had been flat water and now I was carbonated. "
7 " kitchen with the window means we have finally arrived at some precarious level of prosperity. "
8 " the master bedroom with the cherry chest at the foot of the bed that holds the television, which rises up out of the chest at the touch of a bedside button. "
