Sarah Dessen Quotes

Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.

Sarah Dessen

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• No one today knows what is indecent.

  

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• I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

  

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• Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.

  

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• It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Easy
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• Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Look
  • Easy
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• Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Politics
  • Easy

• I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • First
  • Odd
  • Exceptions

• It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Job
  • Dark
  • Easy

• Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

  

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  • Taken
  • Easy
  • Still

• It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Good
  • Easy

• In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Knows
  • Countries
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• I'm very blue collar myself. So it was easy for me to embody that in a sense. It's much harder for me to embody Norrell than it is to embody Terry Donovan.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Myself
  • Easy
  • Blue

• You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Soul
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• When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Fun
  • Kind
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  Sadegh Hedayat
  • May
  • Fear
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  Ted Sarandos
  • Want
  • Me
  • Television

• To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.

  

  William Penn
  • Religion
  • Authority
  • Conviction

• The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

  

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  • Religions
  • Delusion
  • Recognizes

• I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

  

  William Allingham
  • Sea
  • Turns
  • Handle

• Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Knows
  • Easy
  • Stranger