Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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I love Sunday-morning drives. I'll be up at 6 A.M., get a cup of coffee, and head out.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.
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It's pretty easy to tell who's garbage and who's not right away, and most people suck, to be honest, or they're just really wrapped up in what's going on with themselves.
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Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.
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There was nothing so antipodal to his nature as this man's cold, unimaginative sagacity, by contact with which everything was converted into a dream except the densest matter of the physical world.
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Indoors or out, no one relaxesIn March, that month of wind and taxes,The wind will presently disappear,The taxes last us all the year.
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Why don't you sit right down and stay awhile? We like the same things and I like your style Its not a secret; why do you keep it? I'm just sitting on the shelf
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A single woman who supports herself is called a career woman, while a single man who supports himself is called a playboy…Ironically, a woman who commits and becomes financially dependent is considered more mature than a man who does not commit but is financially independent.
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Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.
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My mom would walk through a fire pit for me, and I'd do the same for her.
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Our nation's infrastructure needs are tremendous, and they're growing.
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A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
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Where have all the soldiers gone? Gone to graveyards, everyone. Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn?
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When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all."
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And prayer? How could you pray to a God you wanted to hit?
