Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Maybe the sun had set. Maybe the rainbow had lifted—because the light was gone.
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I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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I don't know why everyone feels the pressure to look young. Personally, I hate it. I don't want to inject Botox and look young forever. It's living in denial and anything that has an undercurrent of this philosophy is bad for your growth.
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I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.
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I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.
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We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
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To glorify man in his natural and unmodified self is no less surely, even if less obviously, idolatry than actually to bow down before a graven image.
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Knowledge alone is the being of Nature,Giving a soul to her manifold features,Lighting through paths of the primitive darkness,The footsteps of Truth and the vision of Song.
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I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power.
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Some of the smartest people in the world never talk cause they got more sense than everybody else.
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The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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I want to go play a villain or an action hero or a nice, light, romantic comedy or something. That would be good.
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When you're writing about difficult things and darker issues, it's nice to offer some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. Some sense of hope. Sometimes, the best way to do that is by offering it in the music, so that you can dance your way out of the darkness.
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Maybe the sun had set. Maybe the rainbow had lifted—because the light was gone.
