Andre Aciman Quotes
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My family were finally kicked out of Egypt in 1965 for being Jewish. We managed to remain longer than most.
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In Alexandria, my birthplace and my home, all streets bearing Jewish names have been renamed.
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Take away our things, and something in us dies.
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I like to read the paper online. And I love email. And I love nothing better than to be interrupted.
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I flew on a plane the week after 9/11.
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I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject as a move in everything I write.
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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.
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Chaste love happens all the time, far more frequently than adultery.