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.Catherynne M. Valente
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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.
Carl Lewis -
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
Abby Wambach -
Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
Daniel Cormier -
There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Laura Riding -
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.
E. L. Doctorow
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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.
Kate Williams -
Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
Earl Nightingale -
I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
Queen Latifah -
I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
Gavin Newsom -
Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
Nancy Pelosi -
How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
Vanessa Paradis
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Carl Jung -
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.
Bat for Lashes -
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.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
Victoria Justice -
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
Wendell Phillips -
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman
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Every time I pass a cafe, I imagine it being stormed by men with Kalashnikovs.
Pamela Druckerman -
It's cool to go places where working people are happy.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
Who said it could not be done? And tell me what great victories does he have to his credit which qualifies him to judge what can and can't be accomplished.
Napoleon Hill -
For me personally, the way I've been trained, just through life experience - the harder something is, the harder you have to work for it, the more worthwhile it is, and you just have to know that going in.
Aldis Hodge -
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.
Catherynne M. Valente