I think what I love most about writing is that feeling that you really nailed something. I rarely feel it with a whole piece, but sometimes with a line you feel that it really captured what it is that you had inside you and you got it out for a stranger to read, someone who may never love you or meet you, but he or she is going to get that experience from that line.


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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
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at t...
ANDRE MAUROIS
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'p...
ANDRE MALRAUX
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRE GIDE
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
ANDRE MAUROIS
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
ANDRE GIDE
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Le...
ANDRE GIDE
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
ANDRE MAUROIS
Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to ...
ANDRE BENJAMIN
I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.
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