Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.
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Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.
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The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
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I have absolutely no idea about space exploration. I'm a software guy. But because I'm a non-expert, I've been able to bring the software concept of modularity into the space sector, which was never done before.
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I started writing 'The Lobster Kings' the day after I sold my first novel, 'Touch.'
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Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.
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I want to be true to who I am.
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Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.
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Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.
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We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.
