Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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.
Anand Giridharadas
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When it becomes economically possible, building will become montage.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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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?
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
E. M. Forster
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I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus
David LaChapelle
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Sarah Dessen
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I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids.
D. B. Sweeney
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When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.
C. S. Lewis
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I kept all of my tickets from the New Kids concerts and stuff - wristband, ticket, pass. Why? They are all in a drawer. I never look at it, but I still keep it. It sparks joy, that is why. It sparks joy. That is fine!
Andrea Barber
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Of course, you can never really know if someone is fully revealing himself to you or not, so all we can go by is our own gut feelings.
Brian McGinn
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Sometimes I worry. Worrying is defined as obsessive examination of one’s own code.
Catherynne M. Valente
