Sara Zarr Quotes
When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.
Quotes to Explore
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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Every season, I'm like, 'Who knows if I'm going to get another job?'
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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I needed a break, and going to culinary school turned a lightbulb on that I didn't have to make music. The people in the music business forget that not only is there an entire world of people out there who do not care what we do, we are not creating the wheel.
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I'm here to be the guy that rubs people the wrong way sometimes.
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This is where I break one last taboo: I'm incredibly glad I'm not a granny.
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Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
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When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.
