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AndrÃ© Aciman

"I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when youâ€™re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and thereâ€™s not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name"

AndrÃ© Aciman

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“I feel passionately about how I express myself. Language is the greatest motivating force. You can phrase something positively and inspire people to do their best, or negatively and make them feel worried, uncertain, and self-conscious. You can talk at a fast pace and people will get nervous, feel afraid to bring up extraneous thoughts. But those are the very thoughts that might be most important! They might represent that person's best thinking. If you're rushed, you're simply not going to get at that extra level of thinking.”
“I don't like English bands. They're too structured.”
“Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.”
“I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it.”
“I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.”
“Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing.”
“Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know.”

Source : "General John Abizaid". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.
“Once Brexit has actually been implemented, the world will be a very different place.”

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