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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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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India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
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Well the truth is, everybody, when they die, leaves a void that cannot be filled.
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It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.
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Never give up your voice for a man, you fucking guppy.
