Citazioni di André Aciman - Migliori detti di André Aciman

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

Tag: self-hate

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

André Aciman

Tag: poetry

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

André Aciman

Tag: 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

Tag: 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

Tag: 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

Tag: masks