Episodes Quotes 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…

— Rabih Alameddine

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

— 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…

— Rabih Alameddine

“When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.”

— Rabih Alameddine

“Causation extraction makes Jack a dull reader.”

— Rabih Alameddine

“He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.”

— 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.…

— Rabih Alameddine

“Other people are hazy phenomena that become corporeal only in my memories.”

— Rabih Alameddine

“In reality, the only true model of a successful woman was the Divine Sarah.”

— 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…

— 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…

— Rabih Alameddine

“I read books—read, read, one can learn everything from books.”

— Rabih Alameddine