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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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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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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...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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Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.
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A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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I like to imagine, if I was in the 1930s and was rich and a psychopathic killer, I probably would be moving about very freely and having a lot of fun.
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Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
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Our whole goal is really to create a culture of accountability. Because for a very long time, ending sexual assault has been on the backs of survivors. And it's really up to everyone to be part of the solution. It's really about not creating a culture of awareness. It's something I often tell parents of kids who are going off to college: It's about asking those hard questions when your kids are applying to school and encouraging them to ask about their rights, to ask about their resources.
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When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.
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And understood that rage could be quiet. Could be soft. Rage didn’t have to be a killer.
