"Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are……" — Rabih Alameddine
"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 it less rousing if they don’t rattle your windows and nerves with indiscriminate sonic booms just because they can?"
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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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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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I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.
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To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised,…
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Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and…
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Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this…
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I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it…
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Living the gospel does not mean the storms of life will pass us by, but we will be better prepared…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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It is not unusual to hear a religious leader, a philosopher, or a poet refer to man as having a…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from…
— Jon Stewart
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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age;…
— Mark Twain
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My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into…
— Brandon Mull
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I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are…
— Joan of Arc
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Lief. That's not nice, considering all your sister has done for you," admonished Perl. "Oh right. How could I forget…
— Maria V. Snyder
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Royce nodded. “Invest in crossbows. Next time stay hidden and just put a couple bolts into each of your target’s…
— Michael J. Sullivan
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