Sarah Dessen Quotes
I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored?
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My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.
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If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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Florence is charming, cozy, beautiful, inspiring - it has so many great places to go to and so many unique things to see that you won't find anywhere else!
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
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I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.
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Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.
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We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
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I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.
