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'Almost' is all about gradations and nuance and about suggestion and shades. Not quite a red wine, but not crimson, not purple either, or maroon; come to think of it, 'almost' Bordeaux.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: About Almost Come Crimson Either Nuance Purple Quite Red Red Wine Shades Suggestion Think Wine

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'Almost' can be a polite way of saying something definitely. It withholds the obvious and dangles it just long enough.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Almost Definitely Enough Just Long Obvious Polite Saying Something Way

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'Almost' is about uncertainty soon to be dismissed but not quite dispelled. 'Almost' is about revelation to come but not entirely promised.

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Authors use 'almost' to avoid stating an outright fact, as though there were something inauthentic, dishonest, unfinished, undecided or even unwholesome - some might say repulsive, tacky, snub-nosed, too direct - in qualifying anything as definitely a this or a that.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Almost Anything Authors Avoid Definitely Direct Dishonest Even Fact Might Outright Qualifying Repulsive Say Some Something Stating Tacky Though Too Undecided Unfinished Use Were

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As a memoirist, I may claim to write the easier-to-remember things, but I could also just be writing to sweep them away. 'Don't bother me about my past,' I'll say, 'It's out in paperback now.'

~Andre Aciman

Topics: About Also Away Bother Claim Could Just Just Be May Me Now Out Past Say Sweep Them Things Write Writing

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There are many things about my life that I wish had been different and that I still find difficult to live down.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: About Been Different Difficult Down Find Had Life Live Many My Life Still Things Wish I Wish

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For every life we live, there are at least eight others we've gotten close to but may never know.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Close Eight Every Gotten Know Least Life Live May Never Others

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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.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Also Another Behind Double Feel Looking Place See Seeing

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Writing plays fast and loose with the past.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Fast Loose Past Plays Writing

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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.'

~Andre Aciman

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 2nd, 1951

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