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Portrait of Andre Alexis

Andre Alexis

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[Wikipedia] André Alexis is a Canadian writer who was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, grew up in Ottawa, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario. He has received numerous awards including the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, the Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Trillium Award,

Quotes by Andre Alexis

“so little of what anything means comes through words.”

Language

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“most of the significant moments in her life were really significant only long after they had happened.”

Life

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We are stuck with not knowing what our actions will actually lead to.

Action

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Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me.

Agnostic

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“Prince's words had not been meant as a warning. Rather, he had been playing. He had been pretending. He had been speaking…

Prince

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“It was not boring, said Majnoun, but it was strange. The people were always looking away to where you couldn't see. The…

Death

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“He was a committed leader, capable of - or prone to - instinctive decisions. More: he could put aside thought in the…

Atticus

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“because he was the man he was, one strong thing came out of the confusion: love. ‘Love’ had caused him trouble in…

Love

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“The city had been built by people from innumerable elsewheres. It was a chaos of cultures ordered only by its long streets.…

City

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In our male-oriented God phase, it's always about conquering and control of life and death. This power leads to a kind of…

Accepting

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“Also intriguing was all the bowing. The association of height and status did not, of course, faze him. If anything, it made…

Bowing

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The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his…

Admiration

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“The white dogs with black spots were the worst. It wasn't so much their aggression; other dogs were sometimes even more aggressive.…

Animal

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There's a tangle between weakness and vulnerability.

Tangle

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“The group of people in front of her was jovial and paid her no attention. The group behind was much the same.…

Alone

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As beings who cannot know the outcome of any particular action, it is difficult for us to act in a way that…

Action

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“Perfect understanding between beings is no guarantor of happiness. To perfectly understand another’s madness, for instance, is to be mad oneself.”

Happiness

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The important thing for me is that one accepts that one is irretrievably flawed and as you say, takes responsibility for those…

Accepting

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