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Once Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
- We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine once a week, and I…
- So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once…
- She liked anything orange: leaves; some moons; marigolds; chrysanthemums; cheese; pumpkin, both in pie and out; orange juice; marmalade. Orange is bright and demanding. You…
- She put her hand on her chest. “I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must be still. I…
- Do you think I am a fool, Masha? All this time, and you speak to me as though I were a flighty pinprick of a…
- Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result in a great…
- It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider myself food, why should…
- Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly…
- Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she…
- Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never have your folk…
More Once Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins