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Tell Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
- Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.
- I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war…
- Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the…
- Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
- Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I was doing, and should…
- Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they were kids just to…
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- 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' — Wystan Hugh Auden