Andersens Oceanside Quotes & Sayings

I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self. — Walter Kirn

Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling. — Julianna Baggott

There is the seed of all sins
of the vilest and worst of sins
in the best of men. — Thomas Brooks

Kagan's law of first contact,'You'll surprise you more than they will. — Janet Kagan

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right. — Jeffrey Archer

Of course, if you ask, nobody was there when they torched the churches. — Javier Cercas

At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical. The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful. — Richard Wright

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. — Nadine Gordimer

I trust my makeup artist to apply dark lipstick, but I get nervous about reapplying it, so I'll just use gloss instead. The last time I tried to reapply dark lipstick, I dropped it on my dress and it left a spot. — Jessica Biel

Keatsian odes or reflective elegies which had formed the backbone of his early work ('At Grass', 'Church Going', 'An Arundel Tomb', 'The Whitsun Weddings', 'Here', 'Dockery and Son'). Now he resumed the sequence, and over the next six years would complete four more, all focused directly or indirectly on the theme of death: 'The Building', 'The Old Fools', 'Show Saturday' and finally 'Aubade'. — James Booth