Remember Quotes by Andre Aciman

9 Remember quotes by Andre Aciman

Aciman’s prose often explores longing and recollection, and these brief thoughts on remembering echo that sensual tone. This compact collection gives a quick taste of how a novelist of desire perceives the past.

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“But remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Most”

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With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life,…

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What great writers have done to cities is not to tell us what happens in them, but to remember what they think…

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As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds everything, the…

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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…

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“I'm like you,' he said. 'I remember everything.' I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and…

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“Oliver: I'm like you. I remember everything. Elio: I stopped for a second. If you remember everthing, I wanted to say, and…

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“If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when…

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“Then let me say one more thing. It will clear the air. I may have come close, but I never had what…

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“I desperately wanted to give him something. By contrast, taking seemed so bland, so facile, so mechanical.”

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“The man who'll lay the last stone here isn't even born yet.”

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Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about…

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“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…

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“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…

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“He loved the sticky taste. What had I done? I told him and pointed to the bruised evidence sitting on my desk. “Let me…

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“When had they separated us, you and me, Oliver? And why did I know it, and why didn't you?”

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“As we were swimming back, he asked as though it were an afterthought, “Are you going to hold last night against me?”

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“To be with you. To be with you, Oliver. With or without my bathing suit. To be with you on my bed. In your…

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“I thought I could ever want another living soul, gently, softly, and, with the kindness one Jew extends to another, work his way into…

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“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…

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I cannot write if there is a sense of plenitude. I have to hypothesize that there is a loss.

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