Sarah Dessen Quotes
Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.
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Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
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If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
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I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.
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I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up.
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Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.
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There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
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Do not let yourself be contaminated by others' ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking.
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You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.
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Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.
