"She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people."

-- Catherynne M. Valente

#People Quotes #Library Quotes #Sound Quotes

“If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.”
“God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.”
“I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.”
“We should all be eating fruits and vegetables as if our lives depend on it - because they do.”
“There are a lot of things I love about acting and one of the things I love the most is, here you are taking words off a page, working with someone you might have met just a week before, and somehow you're creating a moment that separates itself from space and time. You feel an incredible rush when you have that moment with another actor. You can feel it bounce off one another. Every take you do can reveal different things that were hiding. And things outside the story get revealed to you, too. It's an incredible way to work and to experience a story.”
“I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.”
“Not everyone's going to like my music. People might not like my music, because I'm just not their style of music that they like to listen to.”
“I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.”

Source : "The American Soul: An Appreciation of the Four Greatest Americans and their Lessons for Present Americans". Book by Charles Sherwood Farriss, p. 63, 1920.

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