Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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Custard puddings, sauces and fillings accompany the seven ages of man in sickness and in health.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
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It comes down to personal style, and that's what's sexy and attractive in a man.
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The thing that's wonderful about social media is that we are able to give a voice to the voiceless and to help educate each other. I benefit from it as much as I provide those lessons.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.
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Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
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I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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Never give up your voice for a man, you fucking guppy.
