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My family were finally kicked out of Egypt in 1965 for being Jewish. We managed to remain longer than most.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Being Egypt Family Finally Jewish Kicked Longer Most Out Remain Than Were

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You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Cannot Means Poor Suffered Understand Until You

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I flew on a plane the week after 9/11.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: After Flew Plane Week

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With ritual, I punctuate my days till they no longer belong to who I am today but to who I'll be when I look back in days and years to come.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Am Back Belong Come Days Longer Look Ritual Till Today Who Years I Am

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Rituals are magical.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Magical Rituals

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Am I the only person who wishes he could escape his own life for a few hours?

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Am Could Escape Few He His Hours Life Only Own Person Who Wishes

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Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it tick and turn this way or that, and identifies them, like a signature, though it lurks far deeper than their style, or their voice or other telltale antics?

~Andre Aciman

Topics: All Writers Call Chamber Deeper Far Hidden Like Lurks Makes Nerve Other Prose Secret Signature Something Style Than Them Though Tick Turn Voice Way Which Writers

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A hidden nerve is what every writer is ultimately about. It's what all writers wish to uncover when writing about themselves in this age of the personal memoir. And yet it's also the first thing every writer learns to sidestep, to disguise, as though this nerve were a deep and shameful secret that needs to be swathed in many sheaths.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: About Age All Writers Also Deep Disguise Every First First Thing Hidden Learns Many Memoir Needs Nerve Personal Secret Shameful The First Thing Themselves Thing Though Ultimately Uncover Were Wish Writer Writers Writing

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I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as easily be writing to forget and put that past behind me.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Behind Easily Forget Just Me Might Past Preserve Put Return Seem Though Would Write Writing I Write

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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.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: About Ambivalence Displacement Evasion Everything May Move Much Place Really Subject Write Writing I Write

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 2nd, 1951

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