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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Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law of bodies falling freely in the gravitational field of the earth.
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Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ.
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One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
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He loves her just as much as she loves him. So, yeah, they make it work.
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A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.
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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.
