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House of Sand and Fog ... I suffer from migraines and when she curled up in the bathtub... I felt her pain. Also, I've met people from Iran and felt connected to their culture in the author's descriptions.


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ANDRE BALAZS Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
ANDRE GIDE Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
ANDRE MAUROIS I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or...
ERIC ANDRE A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
ANDRE MAUROIS It's amazing how stress keeps you trim.
PETER ANDRE We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
ANDRE MAUROIS I don't think I would do a straight late-night talk show, like a 'Tonight Show' kind of ...
ERIC ANDRE It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.
ANDRE RIEU Not everyone can be an orphan.
ANDRE GIDE I think journaling is a key to success. You can set clear goals for yourself. You can start noticing...
ERIC ANDRE Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
ANDRE BRETON Words make love with one another.
ANDRE BRETON Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between...
ANDRE BRETON I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches s...
ANDRE BRETON All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
ANDRE BRETON Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
ANDRE BRETON Fate.
She'd never been a big beliver in things like that, had always believed that solid decisi...
BELLA ANDRE When you ask people who their favorite comedian is or favorite African-American comedian, people gen...
ERIC ANDRE It gets better there and it gets better here, it falls there and we fall here.
ANDRE CAMINADA The fall in oil helped diminish some nervousness over inflation.
ANDRE CAMINADA