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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Wherever inspiration comes from, it's like I'll hear a melody and chords, almost a rough structure of the whole thing [song]. I'll just hear it and chase what's in my head. The rest comes from jamming with band, improvising, seeing what comes up as well. I'll come up with it off the top of my head, catch it, sing and hum, and if something is missing, just jam, and that's the [songwriting] process.
Chris Wyse
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.
Gautama Buddha
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The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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I am the plague which will burn through the marrow of the Anointed City.
Catherynne M. Valente
