"What is the purpose of a city if……" — Rabih Alameddine
"What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?"
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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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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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More Anonymity Quotes
This quote is filed under Anonymity Quotes,
one of 117 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.
— Jeff Bridges
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Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims…
— Anna Maria Chavez
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I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to…
— Kurt Cobain
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Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a…
— Lisa Bonet
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You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be…
— Paul Newman
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According to this woman, who requested anonymity because of her current job as a clinical psychologist, "He and Randy came…
— Rand Paul
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So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of…
— Charlie Hunnam
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I have too much potential for collapse. There's an anonymity that makes people feel safe to participate in hatefulness. I…
— Julia Roberts
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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity,
— Ben Whishaw
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Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.
— Sarah Chalke
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It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.'…
— Matthew Macfadyen
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No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of…
— Wesley Snipes
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