Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught.
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All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.
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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
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I can't not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.
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I have to see how this all shakes out. We will see how everybody heals up, and I will sit and look at it and decide what we are going to do.
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To be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience the very presence of God as they are providentially broken in His service. We have to be placed into God and brought into agreement with Him before we can be broken bread in His hands. Stay right with God and let Him do as He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children.
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As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.
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The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.
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I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.
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If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there is any moral precept shared by people of all beliefs, it is that we owe ourselves and future generations a beautiful, rich, and healthful environment.
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People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.
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The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride.
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My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.
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As soon as you start claiming you can be someone that you are not, you are crazy.
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Here at NBC there is just one more reason to hate the Yankees.
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Witches didn't need blood to survive, but humans didn't need wine, either.
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Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.
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Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught.
