Andre Aciman Quotes
Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind it.
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I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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I actually got an initial sense of how big 'Outlander' was going to be on Twitter. We're all on there to help promote the show and also interact with the fans.
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If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.
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One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.
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I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.
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The thing about death is that it's honest.
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
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Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
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Montaigne the I-sayer. 'I' as space, not as position.
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Never tell the box-office man that you can't hear well or he will sell you a seat where you can't see either.
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That men should ‘turn the other cheek,’ should ‘love their enemies,’ should ‘resist not evil,’ has ever seemed fine to teach to children, to preach on Sundays, to round a period in a senseless oratorical flight; but it has been taken for granted that these sentiments cannot furnish the real foundation for strong characters or great states. p. 13
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In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.
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I think, for so long, women of different sizes have been pigeonholed, and with every campaign, it's always an adaptation of making fashion but for plus sizes. Sometimes it's in a little bit of a negative way, and plus is always a little bit slow to be fashion forward.
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I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.
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You have to accommodate the rich and the new rich under the same roof.
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Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind it.
