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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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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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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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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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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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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The moral precept to adopt...is: Judge, and be prepared to be judged.
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Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
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Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
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I am a very good driver - a defensive driver.
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The spine of the FBI is the rule of law. The spine of the FBI is a commitment to doing the right thing, in the right way, while protecting civil liberties.
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Do you ask the same questions about the trauma the nation suffers when you are removing a judge as when you are removing a president? ... That answer must be stunningly different when you are asked should the president of the United States be removed and the will of the electorate overturned.
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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
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I support organizations that help people do better for themselves and the community.
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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.
