Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
[...] She started disappearing as soon as she was born. Just to get away from you.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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Tech is all about building human connections.
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I like the work that I get to do.
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Being beautiful isn't everything... Sometimes it's interesting to show how you feel on the inside on the outside, just through expressing yourself.
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The work that I do with all of my characters is have some sense of where they come from. I kind of create my own story for myself. What's going on with my parents? Are they alive? Or family - do I have children? Do you see those things or not?
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice.
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I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!
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It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.
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A woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man’s life any more than a man would have the right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman’s life.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis.
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Nothing's Planted, I don't have a thing in the ground.
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I like to let the work speak rather than to have to talk about it.
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The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined.
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I am a brush, the car is my track and the artist my canvas.
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But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?
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Once you are hooked, smoking is harder to quit then heroin.
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The atonement chapter [from the book Saving Calvinism] shows how there are real riches in Reformed theology that most Christians today have no idea about.
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[...] She started disappearing as soon as she was born. Just to get away from you.
