Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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There are days when I will be like, 'Oh my goodness, I am not happy with the way I look because I cannot fit into any of my clothes.' So I eat quinoa that week, and then I feel good.
Blake Lively
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
Carlos Fuentes
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Irrationality is the opposite of rationality: it means unreasonable, unfounded, ill-conceived. Irrationality is reason, practiced badly. A trance brought about by ecstatic dancing or drumming is certainly not rational, but it isn't irrational either. It's non-rational—it belongs to another category of experience entirely. Indeed, much of its value lies quite precisely in the fact that it takes us on a holiday away from reason.
Bernard Haisch
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How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?
Dan Burton
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I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
Catherynne M. Valente
