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

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Benjamin Alire Saenz

“Metaphor... is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.”
“States can be more or less democratic, and so can socialism. I think any ideal society that exists on a large scale, which is what we most likely have in store for us as a human race, will involve some aspects of socialism.”

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“So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.”
“People are still people, and they make their decisions based on their life experiences and their beliefs. You really can't divorce the two. It's important to fight against stereotypes and oversimplifications in very complex people.”

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“I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.”

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“I tried retiring a couple of times and it just didn't really stick so, but at some point enough things conspire together and it does stick.”
“I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.”
“When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power.”

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