André Aciman Zitate - Beste Sprüche von André Aciman

...in my world, a man who darns his own socks is not a man.

André Aciman

Stichwörter: darn-masculinity

Perhaps he was a stand-in for who I was, a primitive version of the me I'd lost track of and sloughed off in America. My shadow self, my picture of Dorian Gray, my mad brother in the attic, my Mr Hyde, my very, very rough draft. Me unmasked, unchained, unleashed, unfinished: me untrammeled, me in rags, me enraged. Me without books, without finish, without a green card. Me with a Kalashnikov.

André Aciman

Stichwörter: me

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.

André Aciman

Stichwörter: self-hate

Because I didn't want to forget was the heart and soul of poetry.

André Aciman

Stichwörter: poetry

I liked forgetting my cares. Thanks to wine, you didn't forget them, they just stopped scaring you for a while.

André Aciman

Stichwörter: care-of-wine

It was not flirting, just verbal ping-pong. I was dying to slam the ball but too polite to stop the back-and-forth.

André Aciman

Stichwörter: ping-pong

He had picked up shrink talk from the women he'd met in Cambridge and understood that once a woman bares her soul there's little else she won't bare...

André Aciman

Stichwörter: shrink-wrap

Among Arabs he was a Berber, among Frenchmen an Arab, among his own a nothing, as I'd been a Jew among Arabs, an Egyptian among strangers and now an alien among WASPs, the clueless janitor trying out for the polo team.

André Aciman

As I watched my own reflection on the glass panels of the Green Line car heading out to Newton that evening, I kept asking myself: Was this really me, and were these really my features standing out on this totally alien Boston scenery? Who was I? How many masks could I be wearing at the same time? Who was I when I wasn't looking?

André Aciman

Stichwörter: masks