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True Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
- At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much,…
- 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…
- It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries…
- Even if you’ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It’s hard to be really naked.…
- True names,” said September wonderingly. “These are all true names. Like, when your parents call you to dinner and you don’t come and they call…
- Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot—it's not my place to judge. After all, I'm a…
- For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and new, fast and…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood