Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Over in the refrigerated section hang lies told so long ago and so often that they turned into the truth and get taught in history books.
Catherynne M. Valente
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They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
Kanye West
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As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.
Ramana Maharshi
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.
Wendy Kopp
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The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.
S. J. Rozan
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Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.
Radhanath Swami
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But truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.
J. M. Coetzee
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And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floorShall be lifted - nevermore!
Edgar Allan Poe
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I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.
Orson Scott Card
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She wants to go home, but nobody's home. It's where she lies, broken inside.
Avril Lavigne
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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Kahlil Gibran
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Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires,And decorate the verse herself inspires:This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,-Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.
Lord Byron
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Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.
NeNe Leakes
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When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them and to adhere nakedly to the imageless truth of God.
Austin Farrer
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The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things. Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source. Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.
Willy Ley
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The policemen's faces glisten too, they're holding themselves back, they love this, it's a ceremony, they're implementing a policy.
Margaret Atwood
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My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.
Doris Lessing
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Over in the refrigerated section hang lies told so long ago and so often that they turned into the truth and get taught in history books.
Catherynne M. Valente
