Paul Gallico
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"Paul William Gallico" 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 (novel)/The Poseidon Adventure, primarily through the 1972 film adaptation.

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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.

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

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.

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.

The door opened and it was God himself who walked into the room, straight from the glittering throne, God dressed in a camel's hair polo coat and flat camel's hair cap.

Kittens can happen to anyone.

Law is a mental hair shirt. He admits a great longing for financial independence from the routine of desk slavery.