Andre Aciman Quotes
It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough in any other writer that make him the introspective genius he is.

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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.
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I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on the plane - it's like a full meal! The articles are so good, especially the crime stories. Browsing the Web is more like snacking - but I live on snacks.
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We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
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American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
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I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.
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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
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There's no good guys and bad guys.
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I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.
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Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
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And I think within the pages of The Betrayal of America I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
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Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.
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I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
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Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
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Phenomenons only happen once in a lifetime.
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It's a start and hopefully we can build off that. But we're capable of more.
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It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough in any other writer that make him the introspective genius he is.