“You have to delude yourself if you want to carry on in this life.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“I slipped into art to escape life. I sneaked off into literature.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have happened but didn't, or… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality. — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“Beirut is the Elizabeth Taylor of cities: insane, beautiful, falling apart, aging, and forever drama laden.She'll also marry any infatuated suitor who… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“I like men and women who don't fit well in the dominant culture, or, as Alvar de Campos calls them, strangers in… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they don’t bomb your power stations whenever they feel you need to… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“You looked inhuman when you were dying, Doc, your eyes glistened like dimming stars, you were wasting away and life was leaving… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“...and Satan said, This is not possession, if it were, you would do what I tell you and not refuse my counsel,… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“Isn't someone's life more than a collecion of scenes? Isn't she more than the images I have compiled in my head? These… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“I like men and women who don't fit well in the dominant culture, or, as Alvar de Campos calls them, strangers in this place… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
“I was always alone, Doc, solitary whether I wished to be or not, ever since I could remember I wished to be lost in… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
“When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
“He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
You look at the Koran or the Bible, they all tell the same stories. You see them as the stories of the Middle East.… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
“Other people are hazy phenomena that become corporeal only in my memories.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
“In reality, the only true model of a successful woman was the Divine Sarah.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
“I told her I was not sure I could bear living with memories, she said, Look up at the stars, look, they are not… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
“In Beirut, death’s unremitting light shines bright for all to see, brighter than the Mediterranean sun, brighter than the night’s Russian missiles, brighter than… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
“In the summer of 1982, while Israeli armored tanks and gunships imposed a siege of another age on rampartless Beirut, cutting off the water… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee bean that… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
