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.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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  • Work
  • Mind

• I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Time
  • Good
  • America

• Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Strength

• 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.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Up
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• You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
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  • Know
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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.

  

  Sam Trammell
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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.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
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  • Know
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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.

  

  Maiwenn
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  • Movie
  • Know

• If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Good
  • Care
  • Land

• I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Hero

• American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Good
  • American
  • Nice

• 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.

  

  Tao Lin
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  • Goal

• 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.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Opinion

• There's no good guys and bad guys.

  

  Hal Holbrook
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  • Bad
  • Good Guys

• 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.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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  • America
  • Old

• 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.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Up
  • Good
  • America

• Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Good
  • Fight
  • Scene

• The man of Hope, Barack Obama. America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • America
  • Hope
  • Leadership

• Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Hate

• A horse, you know, they can't say, 'Hi? How are you? I'm so-and-so,' you know? So they communicate through typically smelling or, you know, just body language. And when a horse approaches another horse, the first thing they do is they smell noses.

  

  Brady Jandreau
  • Horse

• I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

  

  Anthony Storr

• Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
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  • Fear
  • Search

• 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.

  

  Andre Aciman
  • Good
  • Honesty