Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
You have to be able to see the world as a whole to bear it - to see the Queerness that moves in every bit of Fairyland, how it threads through every heart and field, how we are all bound together up in the Weird Well of the World.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I'm evangelical.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
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I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.
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I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.
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I love being the sidekick. I'm pretty sure fans love seeing me that way.
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I haven't been the best boyfriend or husband, and that means I don't get to spend every day with my daughter.
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It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system.
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Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for you.
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One of the key drivers of Ireland's future is our balance of trade surplus.
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Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another for there will always be others whose lives on the face of it appear better. However just remember and focus on the fact that your life could be much worse and be grateful it isn't. No matter what others or even you may briefly think you are lucky things aren't worse so be grateful.
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You have to be able to see the world as a whole to bear it - to see the Queerness that moves in every bit of Fairyland, how it threads through every heart and field, how we are all bound together up in the Weird Well of the World.
