Alibi Quote by Andre Aciman Download Open image “Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.” — Andre Aciman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alibi Identity People Self Shadow Shadow self
Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present. — Fausto Cercignani Copy Share Image
“A person's true identity can often be difficult to discern, even to themselves, causing one to question their character, their calling, their very existence.… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it. — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
I don't think you can do something wrong with your identity if you're living in your authenticity. — Rachel Dolezal Copy Share Image
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
Shadows are people who don't know the difference between being an individual, and being a close copy. Step out of the path, become your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're anything less than who you are and you're not authentic, people pick up on it. — Doris Burke Copy Share Image
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… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“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… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Rituals are how we step into our private field of dreams, a small Elysium all our own. Rituals are made not just for us,… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“I desperately wanted to give him something. By contrast, taking seemed so bland, so facile, so mechanical.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“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… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“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… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“He loved the sticky taste. What had I done? I told him and pointed to the bruised evidence sitting on my desk. “Let me… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“When had they separated us, you and me, Oliver? And why did I know it, and why didn't you?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“As we were swimming back, he asked as though it were an afterthought, “Are you going to hold last night against me?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“To be with you. To be with you, Oliver. With or without my bathing suit. To be with you on my bed. In your… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Don't ever accuse anyone of being full of pride, undignified and unprofessional when simply they are wise to move away from dishonest schemers. Dishonesty… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.' — Billy Evans Copy Share Image
“Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it is of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder. ” — Dark Jar Tin Zoo Copy Share Image
You know, at parties, people always ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi! — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
