Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Sometimes I worry. Worrying is defined as obsessive examination of one’s own code.
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Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.
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When it becomes economically possible, building will become montage.
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How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus
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War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
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If something is worth doing, it is worth doing right. I take that one step further. You shouldn't do anything unless you do it right.
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Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.
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Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).
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It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.
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You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up.
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I'll name check Radiohead on this--they've done a pretty suave marketing plan on this new record. I think generally it's been a pretty cool thing, but what they've done is used those (sales) numbers in a way that they can spin them anyway they want cause you don't know what they are.
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Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier.
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Spirituality is not a religion... It is a way of life.
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You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.
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The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it.
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Sometimes I worry. Worrying is defined as obsessive examination of one’s own code.
