Sarah Dessen Quotes
Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.
Quotes to Explore
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Be who you are and be that well.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
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My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.
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I don't have any regrets at all.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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Fantasy isn't something you run out of.
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In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.
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I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.
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By making all my materials freely available through 'Giving 2.0' ProjectU, I am on a mission to extend philanthropy education to colleges globally and far beyond campus walls.
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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
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I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.
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The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
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Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!
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I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.
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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
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If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.
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If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.
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Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.
