Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
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The universe is permeated with the odor of turpentine!
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Little children require their parent's unqualified love in order to survive and feel secure. Very soon, however, they need a tempered version of that devotion- parents who can give them the freedom to fail or feel sorrow or taste frustration, to fully experience their own pain and pleasure and learn from them. Therapists call this phenomenon "ownership".
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The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.
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It's always important to me to play something other DJs aren't playing.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.
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We haven't seen the best of that, I think he's still feeling his way around but I heard he doesn't make any friends out there, a little Bobby Clarke style, and that's what we need.
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Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.
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I think we all wear some kind of mask. There are masks that shield us from others, but there are masks that embolden us, and you see that in carnival. The shiest child puts on a mask and can do anything and be anybody.
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Honesty is such a lonely word Everyone is so untrue Honest is hardly ever heard And mostly what I need from you.
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It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.
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I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
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That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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I sleep with the drapes open to rise with the sun. I think that's a healthy thing to do because even if you don't like to wake up early, your body does adjust.
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Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an original thought or observation in a fishing book, I've turned the corner of the page down.
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Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.
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Some boys... Are perfect shits. & other boys are very, very beautiful.
