Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
And really, really, when you put a fairy tale together with grime and despair and industrial angst you get the Gothic, and that's where we live, Percy.
Catherynne M. Valente
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
Patrick Chappatte
If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
Orhan Pamuk
I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.
Garry Shandling
The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
Harold Russell
I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
Jack O'Brien
I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?
Jack Ma
But you will imagine that it is best that He should at once enable you to see clearly. If it is, you may be sure He will do it. He never makes mistakes. But He often deals far differently with His disciples. He lets them grope their way in the dark until they fully learn how blind they are, how helpless, how absolutely in need of Him. What His methods will be with you I cannot foretell. But you may be sure that He never works in an arbitrary way. He has a reason for everything He does. You may not understand why He leads you now in this way and now in that, but you may, nay, you must believe that perfection is stamped on His every act.
Elizabeth Prentiss
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
Walker Percy
To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.
Oscar Wilde
She’s your best friend. But I can’t help. My attention’s on you, baby. My intentions are offensive but she’ll get over it.
Jesse Rutherford
And really, really, when you put a fairy tale together with grime and despair and industrial angst you get the Gothic, and that's where we live, Percy.
Catherynne M. Valente
