153 Quotes About Rats
- Author Chila Woychik
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I have a bad habit of dropping verbal pellets to get a reaction, like Ursula LeGuin’s “A novelist’s business is lying” (that particular one got a lot of attention on Facebook), or, “Why is it that Christians hate the word ‘sex’?
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- Author Chila Woychik
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I’m a rat. I used to believe in the Golden Rule but now question it. It’s too easy to be snarky at those who are snarky toward me. I like how it feels—the yellow cheese giving way between pointed teeth. My tail begins to twitch.
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- Author Chila Woychik
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I’m engaged in the dance of the ages and the search for a song to go with it. Though Templeton’s A Veritable Smorgasbord is a well-deserving classic, it’s a stanza too short for my morphing existence. So I write my own.
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- Author Chila Woychik
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This world rubs me raw, scours me smooth like an SOS pad put to a grease-caked skillet. And pain: it stabs and scrapes and pulls me back to earth, my final B&B, that worm-spun cot of cool black sod.
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- Author Chila Woychik
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I die with the dying light, yet shine brighter as the darkness approaches. Soon I’ll be whittled to bone and stripped clean through, nothing left but a skeleton on which to hang a hat. But have no fear, I look good in hats.
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- Author Bill Bryson
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Rat bites are almost certainly under reported because only the most serious cases attract attention, but even using the most conservative figures, at least fourteen thousand people in the United States are attacked by rats each year.
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- Author Harry Anderson
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I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
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- Author Julian Assange
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Every time you go to a party and take a picture and post that picture to Facebook, you’re being a rat. You’re being a narc.
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- Author Margaret Atwood
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A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
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