Valid Quotes

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His conviction of having no purpose in life other than to act as a distillation of poison was part of the ego of an eighteen-year-old.… — Yukio Mishima
You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will… — Robert Kirkman
The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said?… — Milan Kundera
It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth. — Aleister Crowley
A moral system valid for all is basically immoral. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone." Red Riding Hood said, "I… — James Finn Garner
I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate,… — Ray Bradbury
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for… — Thomas Ligotti
He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself. — James Finn Garner
The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he or she has… — Mary Oliver
I know I hated magic for a reason," Janco said. "Congratulations. This is the first time you've had a VALID reason to hate something," Ari… — Maria V. Snyder
Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication they… — Will Eisner
Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do. — Ellen Hopkins
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the… — Joseph Campbell
LSD was an incredible experience. Not that Iâ€™m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of â€“ it hammered home to me… — Alan Moore
If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it? — Yann Martel
What is a valid reason for someone to love someone else? Since apparently Iâ€™m doing it wrong. — Stephenie Meyer
The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that… — James Frey
Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In… — Dean Koontz
Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely… — Fernando Pessoa

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