Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.
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In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.
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When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.
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I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
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The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.
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The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.
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A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
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All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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How others judge me is none of my business.
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I guess when I'm frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I've tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative order on the experience as it happens.
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The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.
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I am sustained by Being Necessary.
