Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

  

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• Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

  

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• I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.

  

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• Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.

  

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• I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

  

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• One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

  

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• When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

  

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• Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.

  

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• I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.

  

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• I don't worry about the things I can't change.

  

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  • Change
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• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

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  • Work
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• You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.

  

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• He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.

  

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• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

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• Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

  

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• I lost about 60 pounds. I don't really have a moment specifically that made me do it. I remember little things, like, when I was in Japan, I remember looking around at the portion sizes of a fast food restaurant and being like, 'Well, this has something to do with it.' Americans definitely eat too much.

  

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• One moment cannot be the most important.

  

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• Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.

  

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• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

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• Humanity is a cancer on the body of the world

  

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• I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.

  

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• A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.

  

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• But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Love
  • Compulsion