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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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
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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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The toxic effect of carbon monoxide on man has nothing to do with inhibition of cellular respiration by carbon monoxide but is based on the reaction of carbon monoxide with blood iron.
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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 voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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Whenever you are willing to obey me, Much-Afraid, and to follow the path of my choice, you will always be able to hear and recognize my voice, and when you hear it you must always obey. Remember also that it is always safe to obey my voice, even if it seems to call you to paths which look impossible or even crazy.
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Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
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It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
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Never give up your voice for a man, you fucking guppy.
