Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

She smelled like accounts receivable. She looked like old money.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• Looked Like
• Old Money
• Receivable

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• Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.

  

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• To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that it is so useless that I make little distinction between a man who is only a mathematician and a common artisan. Also, I call it the most beautiful profession in the world; but it is only a profession.

  

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• She smelled like accounts receivable. She looked like old money.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Accounts
  • Smelled
  • Looked Like