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> [“Now, please don't tell me you don't care about how you look and that there's more to you than your appearance. There are two kinds of people in this world : people who want to be desired, and people who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabih-alameddine/now-please-don-t-tell-me-you-don-t-care-about-how-you-look-and-that/)

[Rabih Alameddine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabih-alameddine/)

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> [There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabih-alameddine/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world-people-who-want-to-be/)

[Rabih Alameddine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabih-alameddine/)

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## More by Rabih Alameddine

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabih-alameddine/i-like-men-and-women-who-don-t-fit-well-in-the-dominant-culture-or-as/)

[Rabih Alameddine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabih-alameddine/)

> [I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabih-alameddine/i-believe-one-has-to-escape-oneself-to-discover-oneself/)

[Rabih Alameddine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabih-alameddine/)

> [“I was always alone, Doc, solitary whether I wished to be or not, ever since I could remember I wished to be lost in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabih-alameddine/i-was-always-alone-doc-solitary-whether-i-wished-to-be-or-not-ever/)

[Rabih Alameddine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabih-alameddine/)

> [“When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabih-alameddine/when-you-write-about-the-past-you-lie-with-each-letter-with-every/)

[Rabih Alameddine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabih-alameddine/)

> [“Causation extraction makes Jack a dull reader.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabih-alameddine/causation-extraction-makes-jack-a-dull-reader/)

[Rabih Alameddine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabih-alameddine/)

> [“He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabih-alameddine/he-may-be-my-half-brother-but-we-re-not-related-a-chasm-of/)

[Rabih Alameddine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabih-alameddine/)

> [You look at the Koran or the Bible, they all tell the same stories. You see them as the stories of the Middle East.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabih-alameddine/you-look-at-the-koran-or-the-bible-they-all-tell-the-same-stories-you/)

[Rabih Alameddine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabih-alameddine/)

> [“Other people are hazy phenomena that become corporeal only in my memories.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabih-alameddine/other-people-are-hazy-phenomena-that-become-corporeal-only-in-my/)

[Rabih Alameddine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabih-alameddine/)

> [“In reality, the only true model of a successful woman was the Divine Sarah.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabih-alameddine/in-reality-the-only-true-model-of-a-successful-woman-was-the-divine/)

[Rabih Alameddine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabih-alameddine/)

> [“I told her I was not sure I could bear living with memories, she said, Look up at the stars, look, they are not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabih-alameddine/i-told-her-i-was-not-sure-i-could-bear-living-with-memories-she-said/)

[Rabih Alameddine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabih-alameddine/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabih-alameddine/in-beirut-death-s-unremitting-light-shines-bright-for-all-to-see/)

[Rabih Alameddine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabih-alameddine/)

> [“I read books—read, read, one can learn everything from books.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabih-alameddine/i-read-books-read-read-one-can-learn-everything-from-books/)

[Rabih Alameddine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabih-alameddine/)

> [“In the summer of 1982, while Israeli armored tanks and gunships imposed a siege of another age on rampartless Beirut, cutting off the water…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabih-alameddine/in-the-summer-of-1982-while-israeli-armored-tanks-and-gunships/)

[Rabih Alameddine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabih-alameddine/)

> [How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabih-alameddine/how-can-i-expect-readers-to-know-who-i-am-if-i-do-not-tell-them-about/)

[Rabih Alameddine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabih-alameddine/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabih-alameddine/by-nature-a-storyteller-is-a-plagiarist-everything-one-comes-across/)

[Rabih Alameddine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabih-alameddine/)

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