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Andre Malraux Quotes

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: french
Birth: November 3, 1901 - November 23, 1976

Topics

Woman Islam Need Always China West

He who is infatuated with 'Man' leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

Man You Person See Out Sacred

People need to eat whole food plant foods, primarily... whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. That diet supports our lives. We ought to live to be 90 or 100 without getting any diseases.

Live Food People Seeds Plant Diet

I respect religion and will respect any religion.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Respect Religion Will Any

I think eyebrows are the symmetry of the face. If they're not balanced and brushed up in the right way, your face looks kind of messy.

Face Think Looks Kind Messy Way

My own life has been doubly disconnected, as I've written books under two different names. As an author, your name almost becomes a brand; readers know what to expect.

Sophie Kinsella

Life Brand Name Know My Own Names

And if I don't sing, I don't get paid.

Sondra Radvanovsky

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?

Politics Think You Possible Without

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.

Writing Think Long You Look Down

In the U.K., my mother had been the breadwinner. I'd seen my parents side by side. In Saudi Arabia, my mother was basically rendered disabled. She was unable to drive, dependent on my dad for everything. The religious zealotry was so suffocating.

Mother Parents Drive She Everything

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

Money Ugly People Me Writing Speak

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.

Christopher Koch

Confidence Age Poetry Reading Write

I think we'd like to direct. Not so much because we'd like to be directors... we'd like to see how one of our scripts would do if it didn't get changed.

Christopher Markus

Think See Because Get Would Changed

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