--- title: "4 Doing things Quotes By Andre Aciman" description: "4 Doing things quotes by Andre Aciman. Plus more from Andre Aciman and more Doing things sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e44/andre-aciman-459_andre-aciman_two-words-from-him-and-i-had-seen-my-pou_716978.jpg" --- > [“Two words from him, and I had seen my pouting apathy change into I’ll play anything for you till you ask me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/two-words-from-him-and-i-had-seen-my-pouting-apathy-change-into-i-ll/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e44/andre-aciman-459_andre-aciman_two-words-from-him-and-i-had-seen-my-pou_716978.jpg) > [“I like doing things for you, will do anything for you, just say the word, I liked you from day one, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/i-like-doing-things-for-you-will-do-anything-for-you-just-say-the/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/898/andre-aciman-459_communication_i-like-doing-things-for-you-will-do-anyt_1019401.png) > [“Two words from him, and I had seen my pouting apathy change into I’ll play anything for you till you ask me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/two-words-from-him-and-i-had-seen-my-pouting-apathy-change-into-i-ll-2/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e0/andre-aciman-459_apathy_two-words-from-him-and-i-had-seen-my-pou_2081589.png) > [“As far as he was concerned, all women wanted all men. And vice versa. What stood in the way between a man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/as-far-as-he-was-concerned-all-women-wanted-all-men-and-vice-versa/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36c/andre-aciman-459_doing-things_as-far-as-he-was-concerned-all-women-wan_3189604.jpg) ## Other authors on Doing things ## More by Andre Aciman > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/don-t-all-writers-have-a-hidden-nerve-call-it-a-secret-chamber/) [Andre Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“I wanted him to remember the morning on Monet's berm when I'd kissed him not the first but the second time and given him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/i-wanted-him-to-remember-the-morning-on-monet-s-berm-when-i-d-kissed/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [Rituals are how we step into our private field of dreams, a small Elysium all our own. Rituals are made not just for us,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/rituals-are-how-we-step-into-our-private-field-of-dreams-a-small/) [Andre Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“I desperately wanted to give him something. By contrast, taking seemed so bland, so facile, so mechanical.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/i-desperately-wanted-to-give-him-something-by-contrast-taking-seemed/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“The man who'll lay the last stone here isn't even born yet.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/the-man-who-ll-lay-the-last-stone-here-isn-t-even-born-yet/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/proust-is-interested-in-minutiae-because-life-as-he-sees-it-is-seldom/) [Andre Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“Well, since you're not going to do anything with me—can you at least read me a story? I'd settle for that. I wanted him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/well-since-you-re-not-going-to-do-anything-with-me-can-you-at-least/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“This is heaven.” And I wouldn’t hear him say another word for at least an hour. There was nothing I loved more in life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/this-is-heaven-and-i-wouldn-t-hear-him-say-another-word-for-at-least/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“He loved the sticky taste. What had I done? I told him and pointed to the bruised evidence sitting on my desk. “Let me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/he-loved-the-sticky-taste-what-had-i-done-i-told-him-and-pointed-to/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“When had they separated us, you and me, Oliver? And why did I know it, and why didn't you?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/when-had-they-separated-us-you-and-me-oliver-and-why-did-i-know-it/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“As we were swimming back, he asked as though it were an afterthought, “Are you going to hold last night against me?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/as-we-were-swimming-back-he-asked-as-though-it-were-an-afterthought/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“To be with you. To be with you, Oliver. With or without my bathing suit. To be with you on my bed. In your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/to-be-with-you-to-be-with-you-oliver-with-or-without-my-bathing-suit/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“I thought I could ever want another living soul, gently, softly, and, with the kindness one Jew extends to another, work his way into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/i-thought-i-could-ever-want-another-living-soul-gently-softly-and/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [“Oliver: But there's the catch: you're still twenty years younger than those gathered around you, which is why I can be twenty-four in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/oliver-but-there-s-the-catch-you-re-still-twenty-years-younger-than/) [André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) > [I cannot write if there is a sense of plenitude. I have to hypothesize that there is a loss.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/i-cannot-write-if-there-is-a-sense-of-plenitude-i-have-to-hypothesize/) [Andre Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doing-things/andre-aciman/#itemlist", "name": "4 Doing things Quotes By Andre Aciman", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Two words from him, and I had seen my pouting apathy change into I’ll play anything for you till you ask me to stop, till it’s time for lunch, till the skin on my fingers wears off layer after layer, because I like doing things for you, will do anything for you, just say the word, I liked you from day one, and even when you'll return ice for my renewed offers of friendship, I'll never forget that this conversation occurred between us and that there are easy ways to bring back summer in a snowstorm. 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