Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.
William Shakespeare
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Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Petrarch
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Manuscripts don't burn.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.
Kurt Cobain
Nirvana
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Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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Stressed people do not burn body fat as fuel as efficiently as do those who are not stressed.
Brendan Brazier
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I was never told to "Get up, get out there, get a job." It was never a thing either parent ever said I had to do. It was what I wanted to do. I think I was very interested in being away from them as much as possible. Employment was great for that.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very dogs that wander houseless and homeless in the streets find some pitying hand to cast them a mouthful of bread; and that a man, a Christian, should be allowed to perish of hunger in the midst of other men who call themselves Christians, is too horrible for belief. Oh, it is impossible - utterly impossible!
Alexandre Dumas
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This is the bud of being, the dim dawn,
The twilight of our day, the vestibule;
Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death,
Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar,
This gross impediment of clay remove,
And make us embryos of existence free.
Edward Joseph Young
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I am the plague which will burn through the marrow of the Anointed City.
Catherynne M. Valente
