Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• Human
• Choose
• Sides
• Demon

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• I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.

  

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• Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

  

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• I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

  

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• Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.

  

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• When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.

  

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• 'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.

  

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• I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.

  

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• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

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• I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

  

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• A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.

  

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• I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

  

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• There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

  

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• My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.

  

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• The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.

  

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• If Clinton is elected or if Trump is going to get elected, I think the polarization in Congress will be greater than ever. Nothing is going to get done. It is going to be so ugly, so partisan, so back-biting. Well what if you elect a couple of Libertarians?

  

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• I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

  

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• I love to shop at BCBG, because it's classy and elegant but a little bit sexy. It fits who I am in one store.

  

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• And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.

  

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• I won't say, 'I have two degrees; I shouldn't be getting your latte.' Because I paid my dues when I got to the table, I actually had something to say.

  

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• In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • War
  • Human
  • Choose