Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
When you’ve lost your girl, it doesn’t much matter where you live. Everywhere is just The Place She Isn’t, and that’s the front and back of it.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
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Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.
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I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.
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I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.
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It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.
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The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more than to make a scary movie, and I just kind of wrapped my political treatise of the class distinctions in England in this movie.
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He was a hard shrewd jovial politician, whose acts of kindness served his interest and whose interest was himself. His type is panhuman. I had met him on Earth, and on Hain, and on Ollul. I expect to meet him in Hell.
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Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them - the one, in fact, which is not a mask.
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A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
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The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.
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Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.
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There's always been a hunger in me not necessarily to be successful, but to be an icon.
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I feel fortunate to be a part of a football community that includes leaders who recognize the power of sport to make a difference and who, like so many of my coaches, are defined not only by their knowledge but by their ability to bring out the best in every member of their teams.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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When you’ve lost your girl, it doesn’t much matter where you live. Everywhere is just The Place She Isn’t, and that’s the front and back of it.
