Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
Mamie Gummer
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
Yehuda Berg
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I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
Magnus Carlsen
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I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.
Jackie Walorski
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
Tallulah Bankhead
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When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
Larry Gagosian
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There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun; bang it goes, and everything takes flight and runs for shelter. But if you sit quite still and pretend not to be looking, all the little facts will come and peck round your feet, situations will venture forth from thickets and intentions will creep out and sun themselves on a stone; and if you are very patient, you will see and understand a great deal more than a man with a gun.
Elspeth Huxley
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You know, I think in some kinds of ways, we are all born into stuff that gives us no choice.
Al Jarreau
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See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.
Benjamin Stillingfleet
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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis Bacon
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Everything looks like magic when you don’t understand it.
Catherynne M. Valente
