Andre Aciman Quotes

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.

I deliver my Truth hot and hard.

I'm pretty much an out-front, straightforward chick, and I get a bit confused by expectations.

Just be yourself and be upfront about your expectations and desires. Don't be ambiguous and play hard to get. It doesn't work. You'll end up in the friend zone.

It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.

You don't have to be straight. You just have to shoot straight.

Those who don't say what they mean will live and die by their own sword.

After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.

A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really embellish the human spirit. You have to write about something you have a feel for.

You get nothing but the truth from me.

Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don't trust ambiguity. John Wayne

I can't be arsed with game players. I'm more 'I like you, do you like me? Let's go and do something about it.' I'm a very straightforward person like that.

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

It is more important to just be as honest as I can about my characters than to write some really great sentence.

Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.

Truth is its own defense.

I never, ever in my life tried to be outrageous. I've only ever tried to say what was truly on my mind and not pull punches about it.

We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so.

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.