Andre Aciman Quotes
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Losing his wealth, his home, the life he had built, killed my father. He didn't die right away; it took four decades of exile to finish him off.
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As irony would have it, the very person who inspired me to write a memoir... was the only person to be ejected from it. My brother didn't appear in 'Out of Egypt.'
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The problem with Egypt is that there is no public trust. There is no trust, period.
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Rituals are the building blocks of life, my way of cobbling an entire summer together from incidental wisps.
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Chaste love happens all the time, far more frequently than adultery.
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I flew on a plane the week after 9/11.
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In Alexandria, my birthplace and my home, all streets bearing Jewish names have been renamed.
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To those of us who have seen all of Eric Rohmer's films, it is impossible not to remember when, where, with whom we saw each one. I even remember the second and third time I saw his films.