Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

• El corazón puede enfriarse mucho si lo único que has conocido es el invierno.

  Benjamín Alire Sáenz

  Heart, Winter, Cold

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• I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.

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  Life, Jobs, Thinking

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• Words were different when they lived inside of you.

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  Diferentes

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• I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.

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  Thinking, People, Bats

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• Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire?

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  Life, Confused, Heart

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• Otro secreto del universo: A veces el dolor era como una tormenta que surgía de la nada. El verano más claro podía terminar en un aguacero. Podía acabar en relámpagos y truenos.

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  Summer, Pain, Secret

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• I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

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  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

  Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. March 16, 2017.

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• Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.

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  Summer, Believe, Book

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• El sol del verano no estaba hecho para chicos como yo. Los chicos como yo pertenecían a la lluvia.

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  Summer, Rain, Boys

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• Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.

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  Fake People, Thinking, Fake World

  Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013). “Last Night I Sang to the Monster”, p.15, Cinco Puntos Press

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• If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.

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  Want, Comfortable, Ifs

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• I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

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  Life, Storm, World

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• Me preguntaba si mi sonrisa era tan grande como la suya. Quizá tan grande. Pero no tan hermosa.

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  Smile, Beautiful, Bigs

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• Si puedes dejarlo un día, puedes dejarlo toda la vida.

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  Recovery, Addiction, Quitting

  Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013). “Last Night I Sang to the Monster”, p.237, Cinco Puntos Press

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• For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it felt like it was visiting me. I knew it wouldn’t last for very long and I’d be sad again and then it would be worse because it’s one thing to be sad and it’s another thing to be sad once you’ve been happy. Being sad after you’ve been happy is the worst thing in the world.

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  Long, Being Sad, Would Be

  Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013). “Last Night I Sang to the Monster”, p.195, Cinco Puntos Press

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• I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.

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  Hands, Mystery, Sometimes

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• You are thirst and thirst is all I know

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  Thirst, Knows

  Benjamin Alire Sáenz (1995). “Dark and Perfect Angels”

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• But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.

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  Pesado

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• It's a complex thing when you're writing a novel, because so much of it is conscious and planned and deliberate, and so much of it is not, and it has to be a dance between the conscious and the unconscious. I bring my best instincts to my work. For instance - and I come by this naturally, or I think I do - I am a very good judge of character.

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  Carácter, Escritura, Pensamiento

  "Benjamin Alire Sáenz Talks with Roger". www.hbook.com. March 16, 2017.

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• Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.

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  Swimming, Water, Way

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• I do that with all of my characters. They have one of the flaws I have, and I zero in on that flaw.

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  Character, Flaws

  Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. March 16, 2017.

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• Young men and women come of age when they look at their parents and see them not only as their parents but as people. They gain a lot of compassion, and it's easier to accept their flaws.

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  Men, Compassion, People

  Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. March 16, 2017.

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• Absent parents aren't abusive per se. They're neglectful. They love in a very imperfect way. There are parents like that, and they do love their daughters and sons, but they're not parents in the way that we might think of it.

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  Hija, Hijo, Pensamiento

  Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. March 16, 2017.

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• I'm an ex-Catholic priest. I have such a complex relationship to Catholicism. On the one hand, if I called myself a Catholic it would have to be a very unorthodox one, as I just don't believe all of the teachings of the Church. But on the other hand, I'm an educated man because the Catholic Church educated me. It gave me something that is really important to me. So I always think about my faith. I always have it, and sometimes I can't talk about it, and sometimes I can. I am like an adolescent in that way. Teens are asking questions: who is God and what does it mean to have faith?

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  Believe, Teaching, Mean

  Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. March 16, 2017.

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• We have this huge discourse on family in this country, but no one deconstructs it the same way. People talk about "the American family." The right wing has this thing - Focus on the Family. What the hell is that? I don't want to just discuss the issues - I want family to be a real part of the character of the novels I write, and I don't like to write things that feel like issue books.

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  País, Real, Libro

  Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. March 16, 2017.

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