Sarah Dessen Quotes
It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
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And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.
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After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.
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I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.
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We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.
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I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.
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Ungoverned spaces in the Islamic world will be exploited by people who wish us ill. They will not be contained.
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I wonder if I could take back every 'I love you' ever said to you, would I do it?
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It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.
