Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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I have never broken a contract in my career.
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Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
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My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.
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I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
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One child is never enough for a monarch.
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
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I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.
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I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.
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I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.
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A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
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I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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I've never dyed my hair, never fixed my teeth or gotten a tan.
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He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.
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William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.
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There's a particularly British wariness of appearing to try too hard. It's somehow distasteful. Everything should come to us seamlessly and, if you have to work at it, you're somehow a loser.
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Each individual of whatever species, and each consciousness, whatever its degree, automatically seeks to enhance the quality of life itself - not only for itself but for all of reality as well.
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Generous, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.
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No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
