Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.
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Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty.
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I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.
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The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.
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The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
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Every true man's apparel fits your thief.
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Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?
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In gold sandals dawn like a thief fell upon me.
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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.
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It speaks to me in the silence of this one then through the words of that one speaking; it whispers to me through an eyebrow raised and the message of an eye winking.
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The negative screams at you but the positive only whispers.
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Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.
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The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.
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Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves.
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In fact, I point out that all the conspiracies in history - especially during the last 5000 years - are actually different aspects of the same conspiracy. Some people fixed on one aspect of the conspiracy, and say this is the problem, others say another thing, but the thing is all the conspirators work together. All the conspirators are part of the same operation. And this is what people find very reluctant.
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There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers just as cholera destroyed its human victims.
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The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history of the Native Americans was rendered invisible. The land could only be occupied if it was first defined as empty. So it was defined as a wilderness, even though it had been used by native people for millennia.
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I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.
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Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship.
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And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!
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In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.
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I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.
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They were all whispers now, the two of them, conspirators and thieves.
