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Leonore Fleischer, born in 1932, is an accomplished author whose works span across various literary genres. Known for her profound thoughts and unique narrative style, her works have gained widespread acclaim.

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All Cat Ifs Dog Tables Affectionate Aloof Appetizers Awake Bangs Beautiful

Famous Leonore Fleischer Quotes

“A cat is better than you are, more honest, more graceful, smarter for her size, better coordinated, and infinitely more beautiful.”

Beautiful Honest Cat Size Smarter Better Than You

Book:The Cat's Pajamas

Source: The Cat's Pajamas

“"Exercise" is such a dirty word in my household that whenever I even think of it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.”

Thinking Inspirational Exercise Mouths Dirty Chocolate Household Dirty Words

Author:Leonore Fleischer

“If God did not intend the cat to live happily with humankind, why is there a meow in the middle of the word 'hoMEOWner'?”

Ifs Middle Cat Humankind Homeowners

Book:The Cat's Pajamas

Source: The Cat's Pajamas

“Catch a dog in your favorite chair, and he slinks away abashed. The cat will pretend incomprehension; surely you must know it's her chair?”

Knows Dog Cat Chairs Your Favorite Incomprehension

Book:The Cat's Pajamas

Source: The Cat's Pajamas

“If you are reading a large newspaper, all spread out on the table, your cat will come and sit on the very paragraph you are reading, the talented cat draping her tail with miraculous precision over the very line you're not finished with.”

Ifs Reading Lines Cat Tables Spread Finished Newspapers Tails Miraculous Precision Paragraph

Book:The Cat's Pajamas

Source: The Cat's Pajamas

“A cat is a purring parcel of paradox, a cunning collection of contradictions. A cat is lazy and busy, dainty and savage, affectionate and aloof, greedy and finicky, sound asleep in one instant, and awake and stalking in the next. A cat is a limp puddle of softness, surrounding a steel-hard and ever-alert set of muscles. ... A cat has the face of a pansy flower, and is just as velvety. A cat holds infinity in her eyes, and your heart in her front paws.”

“No means everything to a dog, nothing to a cat.”

Mean Dog Cat

Book:The Cat's Pajamas

Source: The Cat's Pajamas

“To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.”

Men Firsts Fool Salvation Locked

Author:Leonore Fleischer

“Guilt didn't put any butter on the bread of life.”

Guilt Bread Bread Of Life

Book:The Fisher King

Source: The Fisher King

“who hasn't slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave?”

Persons Sometimes Loneliness Bed Empty Embrace Longing Graves

Author:Leonore Fleischer

“From talk radio to insult radio wasn't really that much of a leap.”

Media Radio Insult Leap Talk Radio

Book:The Fisher King

Source: The Fisher King

“New York City is like the appetizer table at a Jewish wedding, loaded with salt and spice and cholesterol and flavor, with a waiter holding out pleasure in his right hand and indigestion in his left. If you've got the bucks, this burg has the bangs.”

Ifs Hands Left Pleasure Cities New York Tables New York City Salt Flavor Bangs Bucks Spices Loaded Waiter Indigestion Cholesterol Appetizers

Author:Leonore Fleischer

About the Author

Born: 1932
Known for: Author
Quotes: 12

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