Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I wondered what it was like to feel whole, to not feel torn up or stunned out or wigged out or any of those things. I wondered what it was like to walk around the world looking up at the sky instead of searching the ground, eye to eye with things that crawled.
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.
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People hate searching.
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One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.
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The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems.
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They need a new community on higher ground.
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Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.
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Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.
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You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
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It would be a fool's mission to go in and say, 'I have it; now I'm going to go in and change it. The minute you open that entitlement up, you're back to ground zero, and the Navy is not going to be tolerant of that.
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Searching for precious goods leads astray.
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Something was different since even before I can remember. I was always enthralled with things the girls were doing. Whenever my parents were gone, I would experiment with my mother's makeup. And wondered why I enjoyed doing that Wondered why I couldn't carry a purse.
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I threw my mouthpiece at the ground. Looking at it on TV, I could see how Joey would think I was throwing it at him.
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How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.
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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.
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If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.
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A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.
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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
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When we get through with the Jews in America, they'll think the treatment they received in Germany was nothing.
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I wondered what it was like to feel whole, to not feel torn up or stunned out or wigged out or any of those things. I wondered what it was like to walk around the world looking up at the sky instead of searching the ground, eye to eye with things that crawled.
