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Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Alibi Identity People Self Shadow Some Some People

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Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Act Always Ask Conventions Fiction Give History Itself Justify Live Log Memoirs Most Narrative Neutral Never Past People Provided Reasons Tale Trial Using Want Why Write Writing

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Rituals are how we step into our private field of dreams, a small Elysium all our own. Rituals are made not just for us, but for those we want to pass them on to.

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Topics: Dreams Field How Just Made Our Own Pass Private Rituals Small Step Them Those Us Want

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Marseilles, Barcelona, Trieste, Istanbul - each romances the Mediterranean in its own fashion, mostly by embracing the sea in sweeping C-shaped bays that date back to antiquity.

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Topics: Antiquity Back Barcelona Date Each Embracing Fashion Istanbul Mediterranean Mostly Own Romances Sea Sweeping

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An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Beauty Change Exile Fear He Key Loss Love Memory Reads Self Time Way

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We are, each one of us, not just defined by the arrangement of protein molecules in our cells, but also by the things we call our own.

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Topics: Also Arrangement Call Cells Defined Each Each One Just Molecules Our Own Protein Things Us

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Chaste love happens all the time, far more frequently than adultery.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Adultery Far Frequently Happens Love More Than Time

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The last thing I want to do is to write about real things. I am not interested in reality and in real human beings and their real day-to-day problems - I just want to say to them, 'Hold still, and I'm just going to unpack, see what's inside.'

~Andre Aciman

Topics: About Am Beings Day-To-Day Going Hold Human Human Beings Inside Interested Just Last Not Interested Problems Real Reality Say See Still Them Thing Things Want Write I Am

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With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: About Art Austen Chaos Design Discovery Eric James Life Mozart Need Quite Reasoning Remember Seldom

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I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian, and German, so there was a bit of everything. It was not uncommon for people in the family to speak seven languages: English, French, Ladino, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and even Greek.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Acquired Arabic Became Bit Born Brazilian British Citizenship English Even Everything Family French German Greek Had Italian Languages Many Members People Seven Speak Subsequently Turkish Uncommon I Was Born

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 2nd, 1951

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