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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I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
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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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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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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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I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class’s teacher, when the class got to Evangeline, kept echoing in my ears: 'We’re coming to a long poem now, boys and girls. Now don’t be babies and start counting the pages.' I lay there like a baby, counting the pages over and over, counting the pages.
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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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Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.
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I watched a little girl cover her face up and leave her hands in front of her mouth. I saw that girl after surgery, and she was smiling... that's a great source of satisfaction.
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When I held that statuette, I felt as if I had won a triumph not just for myself, but for every other woman who'd struggled to overcome the same sort of background.
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[...] She started disappearing as soon as she was born. Just to get away from you.
