Sara Zarr Quotes

There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.

Sara Zarr

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• I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

  

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• Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.

  

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• Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

  

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• Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

  

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• Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• Getting older and adjusting to all the things that biologically happen to you is not easy to do and is a constant struggle and adjustment.

  

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• If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.

  

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• I love coming of age stories that have struggle.

  

  Aaron Paul
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• You have to know your value, demand to be respected, speak your mind, and dare to ask for what you want. I struggle with every single one of these.

  

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• Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
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• It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

  

  Florence Kelley
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• If every economic issue is framed as a struggle between a hardworking white middle class and an undeserving minority, then workers of all shades are going to be left fighting for scraps while the wealthy withdraw further into their private enclaves.

  

  Barack Obama
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• A fig for embryo Lohengrins!I'll open all his safety pins,I'll pepper his powder, and salt his bottle,And give him readings from Aristotle.Sand for his spinach I'll gladly bring,And Tabasco sauce for his teething ring.Then perhaps he'll struggle through fire and waterTo marry somebody else's daughter.

  

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• The best teacher is the one who himself has had to struggle to learn.

  

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• What sustains us in any competition are the moments of interiority when the competition vanishes; what sustains us in any struggle are the moments when we forget the struggle.

  

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• I am looking for excellence. Anyone can struggle but they cannot make a ‘perfect’ film.

  

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• Forget being 'discovered.' All you can do is write. If you write well enough, and are stubborn enough to embrace failure, and if you happen to fall into the narrow categories that the book market recognizes, then you might make a little money. Otherwise, it's a struggle. A gorgeous struggle.

  

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• We live in a supermarket of ideas, faiths, practices, theories, ideologies, and much else besides. Never in human history have there been so many movements and ideas struggling to attract our attention. Added to this, the Western world is swamped by material goods and the Western mind is dominated by the goal of material success. In all this confusion, Zen stands out as a voice of sanity. It represents a different way of seeing the world, one based upon the rediscovery of who we really are and have always been, through revealing to us our true nature.

  

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• I think for writers, I think it's really important to court eviction from your tribe: to expose things and to wake people up. And so I think that that can feel like a violation to the people you love the most.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
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• After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

  

  Richard Matheson
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• There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Struggle
  • Awful
  • Obscure