Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived. You, too, must learn to prefer it. After all, when all else is gone, you may still have bitterness in abundance.
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I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.
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I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.
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My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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Wimbledon is very special with the traditions and everything.
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At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.
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If you're interested in any artist, go see them live. I always say that you should go see an artist live. That's an experience that only you and the people in the room can say that they have.
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When I started at Baruch in January 2002, I was almost 23 years old. I'd previously spent five years as an officer the Israeli Navy. I did what I thought you were supposed to do at that age - a little studying and a lot of trying to have fun.
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I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.
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I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived. You, too, must learn to prefer it. After all, when all else is gone, you may still have bitterness in abundance.
