Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
And understood that rage could be quiet. Could be soft. Rage didn’t have to be a killer.
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.
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Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.
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If children have interests then education happens.
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Goodness," Myrnin said quietly. "I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.
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She loves you. She's just forgotten how to show it.
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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
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not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.
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We had no faith in (Cook) whatever. He was not even good for a day's work, and the idea of his making such an astounding claim as having reached the Pole was so ludicrous that, after our laugh, we dropped the matter altogether.
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What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
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We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.
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Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.
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A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government.
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If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other.
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When I was a kid in Boston, it was one of the most anti-Semitic cities in the country. If you were living in the ghetto as I was, the Jewish ghetto part of Roxbury, and you went out alone at night, you might be subject to having people attacking you for being a Christ killer.
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I loved her for her silence. Or maybe I just understood it. And loved my father too, for the careful way he spoke. I came to understand that my father was a careful man. To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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And understood that rage could be quiet. Could be soft. Rage didn’t have to be a killer.
