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
The whole world is going insane right now. We, too, have our own problems. The president of Lebanon is an arch-menace. But I think, as horrid as he is - and he is absolutely insane - he's still more sane… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Other people are hazy phenomena that become corporeal only in my memories.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“In reality, the only true model of a successful woman was the Divine Sarah.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
