Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
There were so many ghosts in our house - the ghost of my brother, the ghost of my father's war, the ghost of my sister's voices. And I thought that maybe there were ghosts inside of me that I hadn't even met yet. They werer there. Lying in wait.
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I see ghosts.
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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
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Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting, because all of those things are part of aggression. She will not take the initiative; she simply waits - and she can wait infinitely.
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There's nothing I love more in the world than layering voices.
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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
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And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.
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It's better to wait for something that respects you than to go in so low that it diminishes what you've worked for.
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I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can't wait.
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If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.
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Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.
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There were so many ghosts in our house - the ghost of my brother, the ghost of my father's war, the ghost of my sister's voices. And I thought that maybe there were ghosts inside of me that I hadn't even met yet. They werer there. Lying in wait.
