"I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more..."

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Source : André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.162, Macmillan

AndrÃ© Aciman

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“My son is a better dancer than me. I always try to encourage him in his endeavours.”
“Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.”
“Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.”
“At eight o'clock the curtain goes up and that's it, you're out there with yourself, the audience, the other players. There's no "take two" business. You're on. The great thing is the rehearsals, too. When you're bouncing around on film sets and TV sets you don't really get the opportunity to - generally speaking - rehearse much. With theater you're kind of four-to-five weeks locked down in the room with the guys figuring stuff out. It's back to play school.”

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“You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive.”
“Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.”
“My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.”
“It is not easy to be a Witch, a bender, a shaper, one of the Wise; nor is it safe, comfortable, laid back, mellow, uplifting, or a guarantee of Peace of mind. It requires openness, vulnerability, courage and work. It gives no answers, only tasks to be done and questions to consider....It functions in those deeper ways of knowing which our culture has denied and for which we hunger.”

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