James is a guy that runs on high octane, ... He's a fighter jet. He burns the fuel fast and furious, and he's gotten much better with that over the years. But he plays so big and he's so fast that if an edge does come off, it's a big relief. ... When he comes down into just warp speed, it gives you a little breath of life.
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There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But ... GREG BEHRENDT He's big and plays so strong and fast on most nights he is nearly impossible to stop. Some nights yo... ERIC BREWER The total package. You get your full money's worth with a guy like that. He plays a lot, he goes out... BRENT ALEXANDER He's developing a finesse game. He's not just a big guy. Yet, if you forget that he can play down lo... JOSE GIL He has to be aggressive and be slow, if that makes any sense. He's gotta do that. Because when he do... TOM IZZO I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and ... ALBERTO SALAZAR He's deceivingly fast. When you watch him from the outside, sometimes he doesn't look that fast, but... JAY HAUGLAND His skiing style is a little bit unorthodox, but when he is on, there's nobody in the world that can... 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DARNELL BING Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big ra... ALBERTO SALAZAR Anyone can be big guy. But it takes someone pretty special to be able to move as fast he does at tha... MIKE RUCKER Corey is a big-play guy. He's got speed, and he's got impeccable work habits. He's the type of guy y... KIPPY BROWN When you go against a guy like Greg Maddux or a Roger Clemens, I don't care if it's a regular season... TONY LA RUSSA If you watched Justin Gage and watched how he blocked (last Sunday), several of those big runs Thoma... DARRYL DRAKE He's an animal, everybody knows that. We just came at him with different traps. He weighs so much an... JOAKIM NOAH A fool is like the big drum that beats fast but does not realize its hollowness MALAYAN PROVERB Andre Agassi is one of the world's most popular and admired figures. He has lived an extraordina... SONNY MEHTA He's just a fast, fast horse. I know he's a New York-bred, but he's a well-bred New York-bred. He do... DALE ROMANS The big thing with Marcus is his discipline. He is such a disciplined athlete on the field and just ... ALLAN JOHNSON Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr... CHRISTINA ENGELA I nicknamed him 'Flash,' because he is so fast out there on the floor and he does it with ease. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL He does it every night, basically. I think the rest of the team knows that. He's the guy we're going... MATT OSBORNE A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace. OVID He was a fast little guy and I would be the guy trying to jab him and knock him down. DAVID BOLLAND (Adrien) is a big help with our power forwards and centers coming in off the bench. Without him, it?... HILTON ARMSTRONG Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER The second half he came out and the crowd got into it and he got a lot of energy. Momentum swung the... ELVIS DUMERVIL If you knew Val like we know him in the organization, you wouldn't be terribly surprised that he's p... TERRY CROWLEY My father is openly gay. He really loved my mother, but their marriage fell apart. When they separat... BEN CURTIS I was concerned with him lugging in there and 'would he rate'? He struggled a bit with the track, bu... JERRY BAILEY I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL He's unbelievable. He jumps up and comes down with it. He's not super fast but he's fast enough. BRIAN MURRAY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. 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KAMMRON TAYLOR He's a big guy, he moves well and he understands the game, so he can hurt you. DONDI MCGOWAN He's a strong runner. With Ricky, he can do so many different things. He's fast. He can run around y... JASON GLENN Funny thing how it is. If a man owns a little property, that property is him, it's part of him, and ... JOHN STEINBECK You can't stop a big guy like that. You just have to hope he doesn't totally destroy you. If you do ... BILLY GILLISPIE You got to see Charlie against a lot of other guys from around the area that were the best and he st... ANDY KUHL [In 10 games last year, he managed nine tackles and two sacks but could be this year's answer for an... ERNEST HUNTER When you think about little league football, high school, and even on to college even more so, you... ADRIAN PETERSON Without giving him too much praise, he's a dynamo. He's so full of energy; he's all over the plays. ... ERNEST HUNTER We made the move knowing Marcus is an explosive player. We feel like if he gets enough touches, that... GERALD BROWN A scout told me that he could have pitched in the big leagues that night, and he was only 17. But I ... DINO EBEL No matter where you are, whether it's a quarter-mile away or halfway around the world, you'll always... VIN DIESEL think when it's all over it just comes back in flashes, you know? It's like a kaleidoscope of memori... TAYLOR SWIFT I like being on the floor with José. He plays with a lot of emotion. He really gives us a lot of fi... MATT CARERE That kind of track, as he put it, beat him up a little. It's so small, it's hard to find a rhythm. M... BRYAN DUNN The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what k... MADS MIKKELSEN Alex, the big kid that he is, he takes care of himself and when guys try to hit him, it's almost a m... CHRIS CLARK Maurice does a great job on defense, staying on his assignment and coming up with the big play when ... BRYAN WAY He was so close to having a bad game. He was mad at himself because he felt he wasn't helping his te... BRIAN VOYLES The physicality of the match is going to be a big thing, ... Is Andre going to be fresh enough? And ... JOHN MCENROE It's not that much different, because he was my high school coach too. But it does make it a little ... MARIO CHALMERS Alfonso plays with a lot of will and determination. He's a guy who wasn't even playing all that much... CURTIS PULLEY He was the muscle for Ryan. If we needed a big pick, he would do that, but Ryan was our show and he ... DAVE MAGLEY When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI I believe he needs to do that a little more, as (Andre) Agassi did in the final - take some chances ... PAT CASH We knew coming in that he has a lot of talent. He does things like that. He eludes pressure and he g... AJ HAWK You see, a truth parted with has its own way of becoming a tale. 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I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour. ANDRE AGASSI Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same to... ANDRE AGASSI It's an incredible serve. It's not a function of how fast it is. The trajectory is the main issue. Y... ANDRE AGASSI During all the years with Pete [Sampras], everybody would talk about the finals. I think Pete and I ... ANDRE AGASSI It's an incredible serve, ... The trajectory is the main issue because you're lunging but then it's ... ANDRE AGASSI I feel like I've experienced every part of my game throughout this first week and I've liked the lev... ANDRE AGASSI But I feel good about the way I played tonight. I was moving well and feeling healthy so it was all ... ANDRE AGASSI It's an incredible serve. A lot of guys can serve it 135-plus. The trajectory is the main issue. You... ANDRE AGASSI It's not a function of how fast it is because a lot of guys can serve it 135-plus. The trajectory is... ANDRE AGASSI It's an incredible serve, ... It's not a function of how fast it is. The trajectory is the main issu... ANDRE AGASSI It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except w... ANDRE AGASSI It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a... ANDRE AGASSI I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour. ANDRE AGASSI Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doe... ANDRE AGASSI What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose. ANDRE AGASSI I think I've always had the shots. But in the past, I've suffered too many mental lapses. Now, I'm s... ANDRE AGASSI It has always been difficult for me to watch. I just couldn't imagine what it's like competing again... ANDRE AGASSI I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then y... ANDRE AGASSI It never seizes to amaze me how much I enjoy playing here and how much you fans have meant to me ove... ANDRE AGASSI Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a ... ANDRE AGASSI My feelings are he [Yevgeny Kafelnikov] should take his prize money when he is done here and go and ... ANDRE AGASSI Now my hopes are for the U.S. Open. I'm in a much better place right now than I was a few weeks ago. ANDRE AGASSI So I go to the Open with the intention of hopefully bringing some inspiration to those who take a fe... ANDRE AGASSI I feel like I missed Wimbledon two years in a row, and I feel I've missed the French two years in a ... ANDRE AGASSI I wasn't the winner, ... Tennis was. ANDRE AGASSI I don't know if I've ever felt this good here, ANDRE AGASSI The third and fourth set, I felt I was a bit living on the edge with my serve. He was getting a lot ... ANDRE AGASSI My kids thought they were on Mars. We couldn't get a word in edgewise, but it was fun to just sit an... ANDRE AGASSI I've been thinking that for four years. You never know when it's your last go, ANDRE AGASSI If he's getting the better of me, I couldn't wish it for a better person ANDRE AGASSI He's always been a real dangerous player, ... You never know when somebody comes of age or game. (Fo... ANDRE AGASSI Saturday is going to be a blast. The whole weekend is going to be a blast. ANDRE AGASSI I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answer... ANDRE AGASSI When I get asked that question, I'm just a bit numb to it really, ... All I can say is how I feel ..... ANDRE AGASSI Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it, ... O... ANDRE AGASSI Let's be clear about something. I wasn't the winner, tennis was. I never felt I was going to win tha... ANDRE AGASSI Listen, James is an easy guy to like, and he's an easy guy to root for, ... If he's getting the bett... ANDRE AGASSI Listen to that. How does that get old? Thanks, guys. ANDRE AGASSI It's a tragedy, it's terrible. I hope there's something I can do. I'll be a part of anything that mi... ANDRE AGASSI I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair. ANDRE AGASSI He was too good. I would suggest to his next opponent that he doesn't look to me for advice ANDRE AGASSI I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis. ANDRE AGASSI Everybody here is taking the day out of their lives to come watch me, and I thank you for that, ANDRE AGASSI Some moments it feels longer, other moments it feels like it's flown by; you can't believe you've do... ANDRE AGASSI When (Connors) was 35, 36 when we played, you know, I don't know if I was old enough to really under... ANDRE AGASSI He was serving well, playing really smart, taking chances on my second serve. If there's anything to... ANDRE AGASSI He's the best I've ever played against, ... There's nowhere to go [against Federer]; there's nothing... ANDRE AGASSI I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face m... ANDRE AGASSI It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, ... ANDRE AGASSI He's the best I've ever played against. Everything you try to do, he has an answer for. He plays the... ANDRE AGASSI I was a bit discouraged there. ANDRE AGASSI Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from... ANDRE AGASSI has probably come on a little quicker than anticipated. ANDRE AGASSI James is an easy guy to like and he's an easy guy to root for, ANDRE AGASSI I kept my head down and kept wanting to make him earn it. In the third and fourth set, I felt I was ... ANDRE AGASSI He was out-hitting me. I wasn't reacting well to the ball. He hits a heavy ball and a big forehand r... ANDRE AGASSI I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad t... ANDRE AGASSI I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an... ANDRE AGASSI Being number two sucks. ANDRE AGASSI I felt I needed a good break after Wimbledon. I was mentally and physically exhausted and frustrated... ANDRE AGASSI I was useless, to be quite honest, as being clear on what was going on out there, ANDRE AGASSI I was a little embarrassed to admit how it happened. You would think a racket sport would translate. ANDRE AGASSI I just couldn't get my teeth back in the match. I started second-guessing my shots. I never found th... ANDRE AGASSI Yeah, and then he stubs his toe on the way out of the stadium, ANDRE AGASSI I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have th... ANDRE AGASSI James is a guy that runs on high octane, ... He's a fighter jet. He burns the fuel fast and furious.... ANDRE AGASSI His serve was more awkward than I anticipated. If you don't get a good return, he immediately gets o... ANDRE AGASSI I knew I was in a tussle at that point. ANDRE AGASSI To say it (the injured hip) was 100 percent would probably be overstating it but to be able to have ... ANDRE AGASSI In the middle to late part of the third set, the sciatic nerve in my back started to get inflamed an... ANDRE AGASSI It's like a car going uphill with no brakes. You're either going forward or backwards. I feel like w... ANDRE AGASSI I'm unsure about what I'm going to be doing in a month, let alone a year from now. But as of now, my... ANDRE AGASSI There's no matches you get through unless you're playing sensibly. You have to, ANDRE AGASSI It was good to close that one out, it was only getting tougher, ANDRE AGASSI If you could start the point off from the baseline, it would be a very one-sided match, ANDRE AGASSI James, ... is a guy who runs on high octane. He's a fighter jet; he burns the fuel fast and furious,... ANDRE AGASSI [Young said during a recent conference call that he decided to turn pro when he received a wild-card... ANDRE AGASSI He plays the most breakers because his hold game is that good and he struggles that much on the grou... ANDRE AGASSI Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doi... ANDRE AGASSI Tennis is the loneliest sport ANDRE AGASSI Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shot... ANDRE AGASSI Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men a... ANDRE AGASSI It's quite ironic that it turned out that way, ANDRE AGASSI Certainly coming out here for the first match in such a long time, I couldn't have expected that sta... ANDRE AGASSI I slide to my knees and say, "Please let this be over." Then, I'm not ready for it to be over. ANDRE AGASSI I have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a product people live inside - and can... SHAI AGASSI I started digging and found that Israel signed a peace treaty with the United Arab Emirates after th... SHAI AGASSI When you translate a dream into reality, it's never a full implementation. It is easier to dream... SHAI AGASSI We believe that you need a single unified platform on top of which you can make as many flexible sol... SHAI AGASSI I don't know what happens 5 or 10 years down the road. SHAI AGASSI Unlike other vendors, we have no lock-in. SHAI AGASSI We won't do the kind of announcement Siebel has done. SHAI AGASSI It looks great on PowerPoint, but on planet Earth, it won't fly. Salesforce.com is a CRM company. Ma... SHAI AGASSI They didn't want to say up front, 'You're going to have to migrate from your software,' because thos... SHAI AGASSI We are standing behind what we say. SHAI AGASSI Larry is a very smart man. You can quote me on that. SHAI AGASSI We all talk about how great Linux is, ... But if you look at the most innovative desktop today, Micr... SHAI AGASSI Organizations have started to create road maps that will enable their transition to a service-orient... SHAI AGASSI After the Enterprise Services Architecture, your applications world will be made from apps by us bas... SHAI AGASSI The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me. ANDRE KERTESZ I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind. ERIC ANDRE It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. ANDRE GIDE The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitn... ANDRE MAUROIS There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. ANDRE MAUROIS Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel. ANDRE MAUROIS Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. ANDRE MAUROIS Business is a combination of war and sport. ANDRE MAUROIS The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. ANDRE MAUROIS We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence. ANDRE MAUROIS If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you crea... ANDRE MAUROIS Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished... ANDRE MAUROIS The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions... ANDRE MAUROIS The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. ANDRE MAUROIS An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go floppin... ANDRE MAUROIS Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. ANDRE MAUROIS Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her ... ANDRE MAUROIS I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, ... ERIC ANDRE I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me. ANDRE RIEU People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getti... ANDRE PREVIN First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venu... ERIC ANDRE As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life ... JOHN ANDRE Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted ANDRE MALRAUX An art book is a museum without walls. ANDRE MALRAUX What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets ANDRE MALRAUX The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten ANDRE MALRAUX The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion o... ANDRE MALRAUX To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. ANDRE MALRAUX Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or id... ANDRE MALRAUX Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the... ANDRE MAUROIS Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world ANDRE MAUROIS There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and comple... ANDRE MAUROIS All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discip... ANDRE MAUROIS In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others. ANDRE MAUROIS A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. ANDRE MAUROIS I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and se... ANDRE GIDE The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the w... ANDRE RIEU 'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't... ERIC ANDRE A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. ANDRE MAUROIS The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. ANDRE MAUROIS The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner confl... ANDRE MAUROIS Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but wit... ANDRE MALRAUX What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it a... ANDRE SINYAVSKY A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general env... CARL ANDRE It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around yo... CARL ANDRE My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life. CARL ANDRE Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist... CARL ANDRE Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for ... CARL ANDRE I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs. CARL ANDRE My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there. CARL ANDRE I’ve always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can’t love be simple... BELLA ANDRE As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust ther... ANDRE NORTON Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through... ANDRE GIDE Before I explain my book to others, I expect them to explain it to me. To claim to explain it first ... ANDRE GIDE All these books have lived together ... inside my mind. They follow one another only on paper and be... ANDRE GIDE What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of explorati... ANDRE DUBUS I think what I love most about writing is that feeling that you really nailed something. I rarely fe... ANDRE DUBUS Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined ... ANDRE GIDE Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. ANDRE GIDE Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and ... ANDRE BRETON It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them... ANDRE GIDE No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity. ANDRE MAUROIS To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. ANDRE MAUROIS Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you... ANDRE GIDE A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We... ANDRE MAUROIS February 13, 1951. No! I cannot claim that with the end of this notebook, of the notebook, al... ANDRE GIDE It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. ANDRE BRETON I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches s... ANDRE BRETON If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing... ANDRE BRETON Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all. ANDRE BRETON The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it. ANDRE MAUROIS In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people. ANDRE MAUROIS Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them. ANDRE MAUROIS There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Le... ANDRE GIDE Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. ANDRE MAUROIS The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say -- be... ANDRE GIDE Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. ANDRE GIDE Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gard... ANDRE GIDE It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it... ANDRE GIDE The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. ANDRE GIDE The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me... ANDRE BRETON If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discov... ANDRE MAUROIS Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from th... ANDRE GIDE Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious ... ANDRE GIDE The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action. ANDRE GODIN Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be. ANDRE MALRAUX To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wag... ANDRE BRETON A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. ANDRE GIDE And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own. ANDRE MALRAUX Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly imp... ANDRE DUBUS What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself i... ANDRE BRETON Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the ... ANDRE BRETON Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There ... ANDRE BRETON Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying th... ANDRE BRETON Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irre... ANDRE MAUROIS To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I ... ANDRE BRETON The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise. ANDRE GIDE Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and le... ANDRE BRETON There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. ANDRE BRETON No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attem... ANDRE BRETON Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leav... 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