Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I wonder if he’d been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.
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The concept of peaceful coexistence has been criticized by many who do not see the need to make the world safe for diversity. I wonder if they have ever paused to ask themselves the question: What is the alternative to coexistence?
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Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago.
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For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.
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On the whole, there is nobody like one's own mother... I wonder if, after all, mothers are not the best friends there are!
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And I wonder why people can't understand each other better. Why do they hurt each other all the time, even when they don't mean to?
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Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern with chemicals. The contrary view- that all ideas are determined by material relationships- is the materialist superstition.
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Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
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Cancer is manageable. That if you deprive cancer of what it wants, by proper nutrition, avoiding toxins, avoiding chemicals and pharmaceuticals, sleeping well, eliminating stress, and balancing hormones with natural bioidentical hormones, you have a real shot at keeping your cancer at bay. In this way, you are managing your cancer.
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Doors of the future are open to those who know how to push them
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I want to support the view that the foundation of reality itself is a unified, indeterminate maze of possibilities.
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Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.
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I'd probably say I'm very strong. If somebody says something horrible, I'm like, 'Okay, whatever.'
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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When you believe it, it becomes self fulfilling.
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I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.
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As soon as the words slip past my lips, I wish I could grab them with my hands and crush them in my fists. But I can’t. The words are there.
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I wonder if he’d been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.
