Sarah Dessen Quotes
Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.
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I have been able to do a lot of great things during my career!
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My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.
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If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.
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Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.
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The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.
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I love you Philadelphia. I want to thank you for accepting me, and letting me be me and make this my home forever.
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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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I mean thats a big part of our existence here on earth, the personal relationship we have with the person that we love, with the person that we make love to, with the person that we share our lives with. We expect a lot of things back from our loved one, and the lesson is to accept and not expect.
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I think our need to be loved is so great that it's the thing that damages us the most. I think that's something we can find in any person, though some people are more in tune with it or accepting of it or have moved past it and dealt with it or have a healthier thought process about it than others.
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I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.
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I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.
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She has the gift of accepting her life.
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Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.
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To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
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Everything must be organized in the most rational way. The state won't accept excessive prices.
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Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.
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I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.
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Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.
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As a teenager growing up in Europe, I embraced the romantic ideal. For me, I had to give up the ideal that one person would be there for everything. Once you give up that ideal, then you begin to accept the person that you are with - the person who won't be able to give you everything and who won't be able to know exactly what you want and feel without you even needing to say it.
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We don't have a farm-to-table food safety system. I keep saying this. It came as a big surprise to the FDA that tomatoes were being grown in the United States, sent to Mexico for packing, and then sent back. I mean, they had no idea that our food chain worked like this.
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Woman! Do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!
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When a friend, then, indulges in the joy unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself.
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Remember trust is portable. Wherever you go, it follows you: good or bad.
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Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.
