"How can I expect readers to know who……" — 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 my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?"
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Rabih Alameddine
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14 Quotes by Rabih Alameddine
Rabih Alameddine has 14 quotes on this site.
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I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I…
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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…
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Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made…
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Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they don’t bomb your power stations whenever they feel you…
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By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original…
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What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?
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Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the…
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I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is…
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...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only…
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I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft…
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I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a…
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The eye always fills in the imperfections.
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided…
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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
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A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
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Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble…
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Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this…
— Jeff Bridges
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