9 Quotes by Andre Aciman
Andre Aciman is an Egyptian-born American writer and professor who is best known for his novel “Call Me by Your Name,” which was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. Aciman’s writing often explores themes of identity, sexuality, and the immigrant experience, and he has published several critically acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction. He currently teaches creative writing at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. (Bio)
Andre Aciman Quotes
We are, each one of us, not just defined by the arrangement of protein molecules in our cells, but also by the things we call our own. (Meaning)
Whoever said the soul and the body met in the pineal gland was a fool. It’s the asshole, stupid.
Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are. (Meaning)
No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.
If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I’d stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.
As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds everything, the soul cannot let go but compiles and accumulates, growing annual rings around the things it wants and dreams and remembers
Besides the fear of ending up with the totally wrong person, the first time between two persons is underscored by two things: desire and awkwardness. The awkwardness of the first time when two individuals touch each other is never lost on the young…or the old.
All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.
And on that evening when we grow older still we’ll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we’ll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.
― Andre Aciman Quotes
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