Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Endings are rubbish. No such thing. Never has been, never will be. There is only the place where you choose to stop talking. Everything else goes on forever.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.
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I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.
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I got so excited about it. I was like, 'Yes! I won a Grammy!' And then my manager was like, 'No, you did not win a Grammy. You were part of a song that won a Grammy. Rihanna won a Grammy.'
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I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.
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Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
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The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.
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If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.
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Your idea of a safe stop is to shank me?!
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Endings are rubbish. No such thing. Never has been, never will be. There is only the place where you choose to stop talking. Everything else goes on forever.
