Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
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Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?
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We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now.
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I'm more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.
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As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.
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This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children - nothing lasts. To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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He ran like if he kept running he could escape the last thousand years.
