Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
No good thing can last forever, because people are terrible and we have this feeling, we all have this feeling, that if not for that essential terribleness we could have gotten further by now. Done better. Done more.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
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Ty Walker doesn't wear suits very much. He's not used to being that pressed and conservative businessman. So, he's self-conscious anyway about walking around in these skinny-legged suits, and then for someone to sort of assume that's who he is, it really bothers him.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'
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Coal is a portable climate.
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All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.
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Ruler of heaven, Ruler of every people! We knew not, O Christ! that it was thou. If we had known thee, Christ, we should have refrained from thee.
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I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence.
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You gain a certain maturity from being a nurse in a cancer ward.
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Meeting forensic patients for the first time could occasionally be an unnerving experience. They often came across as mild and gentle people, but the details of the crimes were harrowing in the extreme.
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How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?
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Any kind of business or start-up you have, you're going to be faced with a lot of people who maybe don't believe in it or see the vision or just say no.
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No good thing can last forever, because people are terrible and we have this feeling, we all have this feeling, that if not for that essential terribleness we could have gotten further by now. Done better. Done more.
