Sarah Dessen Quotes
The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
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I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
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The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
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My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.
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Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user.
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The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.
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I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.
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The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.
