# Quote — Patrick Leigh Fermor, In Tearing Haste

> Meanwhile, the kittens - downholsterers and interior desecrators to a kitten - demolish all.

- Author: [Patrick Leigh Fermor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-leigh-fermor.md)
- Book: [In Tearing Haste](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-leigh-fermor/in-tearing-haste.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Patrick_Leigh_Fermor#In_Tearing_Haste._Letters_between_Deborah_Devonshire_and_Patrick_Leigh_Fermor._Edited_by_Charlotte_Mosley_(2008)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
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