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I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.

I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.
– Benjamin Alire Senz

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  1. Maybe it wasn’t a good idea to rank the people in your life. That’s not how the heart worked. The heart didn’t make lists. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  2. The problem with my life was that it was someone else’s idea. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  3. You can’t expect to go both ways when you’re driving on a one-way street. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  4. I think you love him more than you can bear. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  5. It started to rain and we just sat. Sat and watched the rain in silence. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  6. For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  7. The problem is not that I don’t love my mother and father. The problem is that I don’t know how to love them. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  8. Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely – Benjamin Alire Senz
  9. One summer night I fell asleep hoping the world would be different when I woke. In the morning, when I opened my eyes, the world was the same. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  10. Words could be like food – they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  11. We’d been so sure of ourselves, but now we were lost. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  12. I wanted to tell her happy was hard for me. But I think she already knew that. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  13. Feeling sorry for myself was an art. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  14. Wow, a world without darkness. How beautiful was that? – Benjamin Alire Senz
  15. Grief was a terrible and beautiful thing. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  16. I wish I didn’t have a heart that God wrote Sad on. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  17. All I knew is that sometimes my father was sad. I hated that he was sad. It made me sad too. I didn’t like sad. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  18. I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  19. And prayer? How could you pray to a God you wanted to hit? – Benjamin Alire Senz
  20. I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  21. I didn’t think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  22. I couldn’t exactly storm away in anger. I’d just have to close my eyes and shut out the universe. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  23. The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  24. I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  25. Some boys… Are perfect shits. & other boys are very, very beautiful. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  26. I’d rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  27. I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence swallow me whole. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  28. The problem with parents is that they’re adults. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  29. I wanted to buy a T-shirt that read: I AM UNKNOWABLE. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  30. What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
  31. Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  32. Hard work is what you do to make ends meet, easy work is getting others to do the hard work for you. – Stephen Richards
  33. My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all. – Yann Martel
  34. Match your talent with integrity, or your talent might take you places where you lose control, and fall from grace. – Kevin J Donaldson
  35. Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. – Erica Jong
  36. The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,’ [T.S.] Eliot wrote. ‘But less talent was wasted. – Jonah Lehrer
  37. Talent is only cream in your coffee. There is no reason to rest on your talent. If you don’t present it, then it gets nowhere. – Mies Van Der Rohe
  38. No one is born with a talent. Talent is something we create on our own with practice and dedication. – Airicka Phoenix
  39. Although it’s good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy for great talent. – Gugu Mona
  40. Although it’s good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy of great talent. – Gift Gugu Mona

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