Rabih Alameddine Quotes

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• I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and…
• 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…
• Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with two trees, two…
• Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they don’t bomb your power stations whenever they feel you need to be admonished? Is…
• By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains…
• What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?
• Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one's wall, even…
• I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.
• ...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.
• I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was…
• I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are…
• The eye always fills in the imperfections.
• I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.
• How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my…

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