Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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	I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.   
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	I was unbelievably lucky.   
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	Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.   
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	You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.   
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	The words of truth are always paradoxical.   
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	I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.   
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	A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.   
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	When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'   
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	Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.   
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	The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.   
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	I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.   
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	I've never had a job. I've never needed to.   
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	I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.   
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	Whether it's just walking down the street to try to go to a movie, go to dinner, something like that, there are always a few people that recognize you.   
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	I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.   
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	I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.   
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	October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.   
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	Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.   
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	'Gigabit' seems to mean 600 megabits. It's a VAX gigabit.   
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	The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.   
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	The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.   
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	So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.   
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	We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.   
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	You can't fix a bad man like a bad staircase.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					