Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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I am an ordinary person.
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While our corporatists burn incense at the shrine of the global economy, Trump went to visit the working-class casualties. And those forgotten Americans in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin responded.
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For fitness, I've just bought a watch which keeps a track of how many calories I burn, what's my heart rate, which is very fascinating.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.
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Fire is always ready to burn the hand it warms.
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Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.
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To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
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I am what I am because of who we all are.
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Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.
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Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.
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Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.
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Manuscripts don't burn.
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A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.
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Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
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Yeah, I'm the 'new guy'.
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Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.
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Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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I am the plague which will burn through the marrow of the Anointed City.
