Beach Postcard Quotes & Sayings

He stands on the stone table and selects a large fig, bites into the skin, then opens it with his fingers. He thinks of a woman's sex, ancient and eternal, no young girl would have such gritty sweetness. Was this not perhaps the fruit that got Adam and Eve thrown out of Eden? Who would want to give up an unblemished state of immortality for the insipid apple? — Achmat Dangor

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud. — Douglas MacArthur

Clean boyfriend someday. I love you. Joe. On the other side was a photograph of the Sylvia Beach Hotel on the Oregon coast, where we'd stayed together once. I stared at the photograph for several moments, a series of feelings washing over me in waves: grateful for a word from someone I knew, nostalgic for Joe, disappointed that only one person had written to me, and heartbroken, unreasonable as it was, that the one person who had wasn't Paul. I bought two bottles of Snapple lemonade, a king-sized Butterfinger, and a bag of Doritos and went outside and sat on the front steps, devouring the things I'd purchased while reading the postcard over and over again. After a while, I noticed a box in the corner of the porch stuffed — Cheryl Strayed

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got? — Frank Zappa

A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye. — Bill Gaede

We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself. — Anais Nin

It's the same sex all the time. — Robin Williams

My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did. — Laurence Sterne

The royal manner which the dandy raises to the height of true royalty, the dandy has taken this from women, who alone seem naturally made for such a role. It is a somewhat by using the mane and the method of women that the dandy dominates. And this usurpation of femininity, he make women themselves approve of this... The dandy has something antinatural and androgynous about him, which is precisely ow he is able to endlessly seduce. — Jules Lemaitre