Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
She stores so many of his words in her head that she feels as if she has become nothing more than a book he has written.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
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What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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The words I overuse are all adverbs.
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An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
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Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.
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These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
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You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
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Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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They can picture love affairs of chemicals and stars, a romance of stones, or the fertility of fire. Strange, fertile correspondences the alchemists sensed in unlikely orders of being. Between men and planets, plants and gestures, words and weather.
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I usually submit a novel at a certain number of words, and when I've finished working with my editor, the novel is longer than when I submitted it. I need my editor to help me open up the story.
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We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.
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The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.
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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
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Early Indian visitors to the Taj, who came either as pilgrims or sightseers, were far outnumbered by those going elsewhere. And this continues. Today it is seen by two million Indians per year. The Tirupati temple in southern India, meanwhile welcomes nearly twelve million pilgrims per year. Yet it is the Taj that is recognized as the symbol of India.
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She stores so many of his words in her head that she feels as if she has become nothing more than a book he has written.
