Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.
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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on where we want to go?
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.
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You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.
