Sarah Dessen Quotes
She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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People work hard.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
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I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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If I had caused any trouble worth mentioning, you would have read about it in 'Star' magazine, which is probably why I didn't cause any trouble worth mentioning.
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I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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I find that even the simplest of dresses, if it has the correct seaming and the correct fabric, whatever shape or size you are, it can change the way you hold yourself.
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I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.
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I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.
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Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
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The idea of investing in entrepreneurs who are building things from scratch, where I can participate in their dream, was very, very exciting to me.
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You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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(Referring to the music of Anton Bruckner) 'Nightmarish hangover style' (traumverwirrten Katzenjammerstil)
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One of the choicest occupations here is ripping reputations into pieces.
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No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.
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She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.
