Andre Aciman Quotes

Losing his wealth, his home, the life he had built, killed my father. He didn't die right away; it took four decades of exile to finish him off.

Andre Aciman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 2, 1951

Topics

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I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we don't even know, and make music and whatever.

Joel Madden

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Some writing programs are very much like, you come in, and you have a niche that becomes yours, and, you know, you're the dude from the streets. Or you're the woman who was in prison.

Jennifer Konner

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I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

John Irving

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I'm often loose with my tongue. I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or Communist, but I meant no harm by it.

Jeff Sessions

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God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

Stephen Hawking

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Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

Steven Sinofsky

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I've often felt like an outsider, not necessarily because I'm Korean, an immigrant, or female. I think writers are odd people.

Min Jin Lee

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Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years.

Lord Alfred Douglas

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Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

Arthur Baer

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I came up in gospel.

Aretha Franklin

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Dancers are not like movie actresses. People look at our bodies, not our faces. They only recognise me when I sign my name on something and they say, 'Ah yes, Sylvie.'

Sylvie Guillem

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I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.

Shekhar Kapur

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