Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
E. W. Howe
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
Hallie Ephron
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Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.
Wallace Shawn
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I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.
Mandy Patinkin
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Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.
Candy Crowley
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The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should... you were called un-American and not supporting the troops.
Hank Azaria
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Yes I did when I was at university 30 years ago, just for a short time.
Harriet Harman
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Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.
Kin Hubbard
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
Aristophanes
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Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to lose,Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose.Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night;You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light.
Sarah McLachlan
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I guess I don’t subscribe to the twee school. I remember trying to lose our copy of Thomas the Tank Engine before I had to read it again. Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood. I was trying to make something substantial, something to be read and reread.
Art Spiegelman
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The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.
David Deida
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My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when they saw it, and they spent a lot of time at bookstores, combing the remainder tables for science books to buy for me. I had one of the biggest libraries of any kid in school, built on books that cost 50 cents or a dollar.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
Rachael Harris
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Steven Spielberg's name was all over 'Poltergeist,' and 'E.T.' was out the same year, which every single parent took their child to. So despite 'Poltergeist' being a horror movie, I convinced my parents to let me see it. It was terrifying. I guess this says a lot about me as a six-year-old, because I loved it.
Pedro Pascal
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Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.
Plato
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My heart yields dividends unseen; thou art my soul's annuity.
Catherynne M. Valente
