Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

All the hovering angels were gone. He thought maybe there had been a funeral. Someone had died. Everything was black—the sky, the clothes he was wearing, his heart.

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• I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Reading
  • Fashion
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• As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Long
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  • Day

• Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Up
  • Learning
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• Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

  

  Jack London
  • Life
  • Song
  • Short

• I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.

  

  Laila Robins
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• One can say Senator Sanders should have more explicit antiracist policy within his racial justice platform, not just more general stuff, and still cast a vote for Senator Sanders and still feel that Senator Sanders is the best option that we have in the race.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.

  

  Dani Shapiro
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  • Parents
  • Myself

• I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.

  

  Kate Atkinson
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• There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • May
  • Day
  • Lies

• Okay, this was kissing. Serious kissing. Not just a kiss before moving out, not a good-bye, this was Hello, sexy, and wow, she’d never even suspected that it could feel this way.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Good
  • She
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• We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

  

  Harry Robbins "Bob" Haldeman
  • Words

• My backhand is definitely a lot more solid and consistent. There were times when I couldn't hit it into the ocean.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Ocean
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• Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • People
  • Fly
  • Vegetarian

• They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
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• Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • World
  • Children
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• I wonder why I write about these things. As if I didn't know them! Why do I tell myself in writing what I already so well know? Don't I know about the mountain, and the brimming cup of blue light? It is because, I suppose, it's lonely to stay inside oneself. One has to come out and talk. And if there is no one to talk to one imagines someone, as though one were writing a letter to somebody who loves one, and who will want to know, with the sweet eagerness and solicitude of love, what one does and what the place one is in looks like. It makes one feel less lonely to think like this,—to write it down, as if to one's friend who cares. For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean that awful loneliness of spirit that is the ultimate tragedy of life. When you've got to that, really reached it, without hope, without escape, you die. You just can't bear it, and you die.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Writing
  • Friend
  • Mountain

• I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Individual
  • Awards

• I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside. They don't waste energy marching to the same drummer most of us do. It gives us an opportunity to look at things in a different way, which is the purest thing cinema can do.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • People
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• All the hovering angels were gone. He thought maybe there had been a funeral. Someone had died. Everything was black—the sky, the clothes he was wearing, his heart.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
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