Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
You’re not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You’re only playing.
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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
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It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.
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Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.
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My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'
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Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
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My little siblings keep me grounded. I'm a kid at heart.
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You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
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The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant.
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I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.
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Now you are finally with me, you are safe now. Don't be afraid of anything. You don't have to worry anymore.
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If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.
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I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders.
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Wealth and power don’t go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.
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You’re not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You’re only playing.
