Andre Gide Quotes
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The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.
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I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.
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My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember calling me Ike a lot. It just stuck. It is a dog's name, but I love dogs.
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Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.
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I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
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If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn’t exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.
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God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.
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But when Aurora, daughter of the dawn,With rosy lustre purpled o'er the lawn.
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People ask me the most naive questions. Someone asked me if we have indoor toilets. I can't get upset. They just don't know.
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To me it was more about eight years of bad policy before (Obama) got there that let this happen. It was Dracula running the blood bank in terms of oil and leases. I think that has more to do with it than how the president reacted to it.
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Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.
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I have an ambivalent feeling about the Israeli army. Growing up in Tel Aviv, being involved in the arts, the last thing artists want to do is fight.
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To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.
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Love preserves one moment for ever, the moment of its birth. The beloved never ages.
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
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When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
