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Andre Aciman Quotes

American - Writer | January 2, 1951 -

Older students know what they want, which is good.

Good Know Want Students Older Which

'My Night at Maud's,' 'Claire's Knee,' 'Chloe in the Afternoon' are grafted onto my life.

Life Night My Life Afternoon Knee

To those of us who have seen all of Eric Rohmer's films, it is impossible not to remember when, where, with whom we saw each one. I even remember the second and third time I saw his films.

Time Impossible Remember Seen Saw

I can't forget the scene in 'My Night at Maud's' when the very pious engineer in the business suit decides to sit on Maud's bed while she is lying under the covers with only a T-shirt on, determined to seduce him.

Business Night Forget Lying T-Shirt

With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.

Life Art Chaos Design Remember Need

The problem with Egypt is that there is no public trust. There is no trust, period.

Trust Problem Egypt Public Period

'Almost' is all about gradations and nuance and about suggestion and shades. Not quite a red wine, but not crimson, not purple either, or maroon; come to think of it, 'almost' Bordeaux.

Red Think Wine Purple Shades Almost

'Almost' can be a polite way of saying something definitely. It withholds the obvious and dangles it just long enough.

Saying Enough Long Way Something

'Almost' is about uncertainty soon to be dismissed but not quite dispelled. 'Almost' is about revelation to come but not entirely promised.

Uncertainty Revelation Come Almost

Authors use 'almost' to avoid stating an outright fact, as though there were something inauthentic, dishonest, unfinished, undecided or even unwholesome - some might say repulsive, tacky, snub-nosed, too direct - in qualifying anything as definitely a this or a that.

Say Anything Something Almost Avoid

As a memoirist, I may claim to write the easier-to-remember things, but I could also just be writing to sweep them away. 'Don't bother me about my past,' I'll say, 'It's out in paperback now.'

Past Me Writing Now Say Write

There are many things about my life that I wish had been different and that I still find difficult to live down.

Life Live My Life Wish Find Down

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