"But if you must be clever, then be……" — Catherynne M. Valente

"But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight."

— Catherynne M. Valente

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237 Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente has 237 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to.…
Someone ought to write a novel about me,
These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive…
After love, no one is what they were before.
When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.
Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.
Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.
All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.
We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine…
First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life…
The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.
Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl…

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate… — Aristotle
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,… — Aristotle
I'm not funny. What I am is brave. — Lucille Ball
You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave. — Clive Barker
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. — Georges Bernanos
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. — Aesop
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks… — Julie Burchill
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. — Alan Alda
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected. — Julius Caesar

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