"I wonder whether there is such a thing……" — Rabih Alameddine
"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 we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?"
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Rabih Alameddine
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14 Quotes by Rabih Alameddine
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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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The eye always fills in the imperfections.
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I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.
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