Sarah Dessen Quotes
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
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I try to manage my time to conserve energy.
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One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
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The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'
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The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
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I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.
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Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
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If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
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Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
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My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
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One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights.
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I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.
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All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.
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Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
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Although no one explicitly wants a president who could have a reliable fall back career in stand-up comedy, everyone shudders at the thought of a Rutherford B. Hayes or John Kerry.
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We are changed not by being told what we need to do for God, but by hearing the news about what God has done for us.
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It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.
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Bacchus, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
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Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.
