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I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.'


Andre Dubus III

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ANDRE GIDE Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
ANDRE GIDE Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
ANDRE GIDE There are different kinds of love, but they all have the same aim: possession
ANDRE GIDE It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do ...
ANDRE GIDE Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever ...
ANDRE GIDE Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning a...
ANDRE GIDE Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuri...
ANDRE MALRAUX In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
ANDRE MAUROIS The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDE Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion ...
ANDRE MAUROIS Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
ANDRE MALRAUX Style Is the hallmark of a temperament stamped on the material in hand.
ANDRE MAUROIS Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or id...
ANDRE MALRAUX I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.
ANDRE AGASSI It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDE