News Quotes by Rabih Alameddine

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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 will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of…

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“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 as in every other, accidental in life as in the woul. I like outsiders, phantoms wandering the cobwebbed halls of the doomed castle where life must be lived. David Grossman may love Israel, but he wanders…

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I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

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“I was always alone, Doc, solitary whether I wished to be or not, ever since I could remember I wished to be lost in another, thought that somehow I could disappear into that heart of yours, take walks within your veins, wander through the bones of you. You had friends, Satan said, you loved and were loved, you must not…

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

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“Causation extraction makes Jack a dull reader.”

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

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You look at the Koran or the Bible, they all tell the same stories. You see them as the stories of the Middle East. The stories reflect who these people were in the Middle East, and this is where Western culture came from. All our literature is basically influenced by these great myths. So I'm fascinated by it. You could…

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

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

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“I told her I was not sure I could bear living with memories, she said, Look up at the stars, look, they are not…

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“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…

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

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