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

• The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Thinking
  • Creation
  • Animals

• 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

• Not only did secular scientists rout the Christian fundamentalists, they placed themselves in the posture of knowing more, on the basis of their own very short-term investigations, than the collective remembrances of the rest of humankind.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Christian
  • Scientist
  • Remembrance

• A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Remains
  • Crown
  • Suit

• All that remains to poets is honest poetry.

  

  Umberto Saba
  • Poetry
  • Honest
  • Remains

• All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.

  

  André Aciman
  • Remains
  • Remembrance
  • Dreammaking