André Aciman Quotes

All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.

André Aciman

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• There has to be a consensus and this is a report, a set of circumstances, that the international community simply cannot ignore.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Community
  • Circumstances
  • Ignore

• A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Business
  • Guy
  • Mentor

• You can only shoot small movies and documentaries for so long if you want to have a family that you support; eventually, you need to get let into the big leagues.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Long
  • Family
  • Small

• If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Road
  • Ruin
  • Idle

• Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Different
  • Age
  • Terrible

• You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Mind
  • Mankind
  • Communist

• How do I work? I grope.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Work
  • Grope

• Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Way
  • Happiness
  • Breath

• But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was fading out of her, the stars burning so extravagantly those nights that anyone could tell you they would never last.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Summer
  • Ocean
  • Stars

• Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt of separation loses its real limits. With time, the desired body will soon disappear, and if the desiring body has already ceased to exist for the other, then what remains is a wound, disembodied.

  

  Chris Marker
  • Time
  • Real
  • Hurt

• Passion goes, Boredom remains.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Passion
  • Remains
  • Boredom

• Masculinizing God is the first step in positing a hierarchy in which males situate themselves beneath God and above women, implying that there is a symbolic (and sometimes literal) continuum between God's Rule over humans and male rule over women.

  

  Asma Barlas
  • Women
  • Rule
  • MAle

• Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • People
  • Art
  • Knowledge

• The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Attention
  • inspirational
  • Should

• All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.

  

  André Aciman
  • Remains
  • Remembrance
  • Dreammaking