American - Writer | January 2, 1951 -
For every life we live, there are at least eight others we've gotten close to but may never know.
Andre Aciman
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Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind it.
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Writing plays fast and loose with the past.
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As irony would have it, the very person who inspired me to write a memoir... was the only person to be ejected from it. My brother didn't appear in 'Out of Egypt.'
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Marseilles, Barcelona, Trieste, Istanbul - each romances the Mediterranean in its own fashion, mostly by embracing the sea in sweeping C-shaped bays that date back to antiquity.
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I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian, and German, so there was a bit of everything. It was not uncommon for people in the family to speak seven languages: English, French, Ladino, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and even Greek.
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My family were finally kicked out of Egypt in 1965 for being Jewish. We managed to remain longer than most.
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You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.
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I flew on a plane the week after 9/11.
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Am I the only person who wishes he could escape his own life for a few hours?
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Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it tick and turn this way or that, and identifies them, like a signature, though it lurks far deeper than their style, or their voice or other telltale antics?
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I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as easily be writing to forget and put that past behind me.
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