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Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist, short story and sports writer. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures. He is perhaps best remembered for The Snow Goose, his only real critical success, and for the novel The Poseidon Adventure, primarily through the 1972 film adaptation.

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No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

Baseball, Cleanly, Crime, Neat And Tidy, Punishment, Result

When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally.

Family, Loved, People, Shared, Two, World

A cat doesn't linger over making it's desires felt.

Cat, Desire, Desires, Felt, Making

No one has ever been able to discover how they [cats] make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never be revealed.

Beginning, Cat, Make, Secret, Sound, Time

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

Bring, Golf, Handicaps, Larceny, Man, Men

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

Abuse, Inspirational, Insulting, Rude, Studied

One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.

Craftsman, Facts, Hard, Person, Seeking, Work

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.

Believe, Character, Contact, Stories, Strength, Writing

Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment.

Attractive, Beautiful, Cat, Enchantment, Lovely

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.

Littles, Onto, Page, Pages, Reader, Veins

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

Clubs, Feet, Game, Hockey, Men, Motivational

If you like cats and have some, you get kittens; and if you like kittens and enjoy having them about, they grow up and you get more cats.

Cat, Growing Up, Having, Kitten, Kittens, Like

Kittens can happen to anyone.

Animal, Cat, Happen, Humanity, Kittens

You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

Beings, Discovery, Hero, Heroes, Learn, Missing

It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint. . . office parties, artificial. . . Christmas trees. . . but future generations in search of their lost Christmases may well remember its innocence; yes, and its beauty, too.

Beauty, Cities, Future, Lost, Party, Search

There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of its rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it.

Cat, Dog, Hate, Leave, Matter, Produced