Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
One of my roommates, Rafael, he's an expert on monsters. Not that he talks about them. I can just tell. People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.
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Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?
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I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.
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I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.
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The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.
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Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.
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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don't feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don't run my mouth.
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The Howard Stern Show is a big hit because it entertains dumb and smart people at the same time for different reasons.
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I use to love you honey, 'til you spent all my money.
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Liberia has to take primary responsibility for its own reform agenda. But our resources are limited. We have to attract the private sector to get jobs to our people that will enable us to raise the government revenue, but to do that we have to build infrastructure. It's a very complex problem of development we are facing here.
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
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Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
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The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people.
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Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.
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I had managed to scare even the monsters, and when you can scare monsters, you can be sure you've become one yourself.
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One of my roommates, Rafael, he's an expert on monsters. Not that he talks about them. I can just tell. People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.
