Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
The sun flickers. Like a flame hit by a sudden gust of wind. Like the lights of a bomb shelter during an air raid. Even the sun flickers. That’s what she kept telling herself. A gust, a bomb, a small explosion. Then the disruption passed—everything calm again. Everything returning to normalcy. Except that she felt herself trembling. Except she knew that this was the beginning. It was her body that had flickered.
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Imperfection is perfection.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
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In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
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Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
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He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.
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I'll always have a score-first mentality, because that is my bread and butter on the floor.
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I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
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More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.
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Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
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I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.
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The sun flickers. Like a flame hit by a sudden gust of wind. Like the lights of a bomb shelter during an air raid. Even the sun flickers. That’s what she kept telling herself. A gust, a bomb, a small explosion. Then the disruption passed—everything calm again. Everything returning to normalcy. Except that she felt herself trembling. Except she knew that this was the beginning. It was her body that had flickered.
