Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Sometimes, all you have to do is tell people the truth. They won't believe you. After that, they'll leave you alone.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
Pankaj Mishra
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The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom – the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army)
Warren Farrell
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But patience can't be acquired overnight. It's just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it, to push its limits.
Eknath Easwaran
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And so the arbitrary union of three incommensurate, mutually disconnected concepts became the basis of a bewildering theory... by which one of the lowest renderings of art, art for mere pleasure - against which all of the master teachers warned - was idealized as the ultimate in art.
Leo Tolstoy
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
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A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.
Anton Chekhov
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Yes, I do believe that now after the American people bailed Wall Street out, yes, they should pay a Wall Street speculation tax so that we can make public colleges and universities tuition-free.
Bernie Sanders
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My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.
Charles Bock
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I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.
Andres Serrano
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My style icon is anyone who makes a bloody effort.
Isabella Blow
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Sometimes, all you have to do is tell people the truth. They won't believe you. After that, they'll leave you alone.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
