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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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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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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As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
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When I'm not shooting, I'm a leggings and boots girl. I like cute and casual - for me, it's all about feeling good and being comfortable.
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Life is awesome as a college athlete, and then it's a total cliff to jump off.
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I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more— from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.
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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.
