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.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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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.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
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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.
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My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
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My backhand is definitely a lot more solid and consistent. There were times when I couldn't hit it into the ocean.
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Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.
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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.
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Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.
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There's not a man in here that doesn't realize that Johnny makes us go. He's the catalyst.
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In past wars only homes burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even loneliness ignites. In past wars only bodys burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even shadows ignite.
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!