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Rabih Alameddine

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RABIH ALAMEDDINE I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forc...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we ...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mi...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever ...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990, spanned four World Cups. It would have been a more symmetrical fi...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, an...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking b...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
RABIH ALAMEDDINE A player should be disparaged if he gives less than his all, if he doesn't give 100%, no matter ...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never unde...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much s...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was on...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is th...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, ...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
RABIH ALAMEDDINE 'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,'...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal s...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab count...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't compl...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to Go...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.
RABIH ALAMEDDINE In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, fra...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered nu...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always ro...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
RABIH ALAMEDDINE Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the nar...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends ...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE ...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what hap...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude ...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a d...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England a...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE ...I wondered at times whether I would wake up and this would be just a bad dream, a nightmare that ...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.
RABIH ALAMEDDINE By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across—each incident, book, novel, ...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE In order to live, I have to blind myself to my infinitesimal dimensions in this infinite universe.
RABIH ALAMEDDINE Close friends, or those in my pay, sometimes call me a literary polymath, while others say that I...
MICHAEL DIRDA All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.
JOHN C. MAXWELL I'm still single, but me and Lauren are really really really close friends.
SCOTTY MCCREERY I'm lucky in that I have close friends and family and my agent to advise me.
IMOGEN POOTS I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary ...
ADRIAN MITCHELL I'm the farthest thing from a foodie or a food snob. Those people terrify me.
CHRISSY TEIGEN I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown liter...
ADRIAN MITCHELL Snob corrupted.
TOBA BETA I'm not a snob.
DIANE KRUGER I'm not a snob.
PAULINE MAROIS I only entertain very close friends.
PHARRELL WILLIAMS I usually only play with very close friends.
EMANUEL AX I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
UDAY KIRAN In high school, I had close friends who introduced me to Christ in a different way and to reading sc...
AMY SCHLATTERBECK Everyone was close friends,
DOC SEVERINSEN Keep your friends close, your enemies close and your family damn close because one of them is a back...
FIGHTIUM If you want to know real me, talk to my close friends, may be that could help!
VINOD WAKKCHARE I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
S. E. HINTON I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.
NELSON DEMILLE “Keep your Smart friends CLOSE and your Stupid friends CLOSER.”
MAGED MAHROUS Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your hear...
BESS STREETER ALDRICH He has dozens of our friends who consider him like a second father.
ERIC KIRBY My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
JEANETTE WINTERSON The man who worships mere wealth is a snob
ANTHONY TROLLOPE I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.
ALEXA VEGA Consider yourself rich, if you have friends rich in character
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I consider myself a top-five player but that doesn't mean I'm close to Roger.
IVAN LJUBICIC I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
CARLOS FUENTES We don't have any snob factor,
JOHN SINCLAIR Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
EDWARD W. HOWE Silence and creativity are very close friends!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends
BIBLE As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his pr...
JOSEPH CONRAD Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.
DENNIS LEHANE I think it's definitely nice. It's pretty close to home for me, and with national TV, I've got a lot...
LAYNE ULMER ...it is our good fortune that the exigencies of birth and training furnish all of us with the oppor...
REX STOUT A pleasantly situated hotel close to the sea, and chalets by the water's edge where one breakfasted....
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Some of my happiest moments are the ones I spend with my husband, a few close relatives, and a handf...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Now, 'that sort of Bear' is of course a bear who wants to be flattered, and it is plain that ...
FREDERICK C. CREWS Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life...
CECELIA AHERN Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
MARIO PUZO Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
SUN-TZU Keep your friends close - hold your enemies closer
ARABIAN PROVERB Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Friends share secrets. That's what keeps us close.
SARA SHEPARD We're very close. Not just show business friends.
FREDDIE BELL Keep your sword close and your friends closer.
KILEY KELLERMEYER I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming ...
V. S. NAIPAUL I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
HANNAH SIMONE I am really close friends with Roger Federer and also with Benoit Paire.
STANISLAS WAWRINKA Please — consider me a dream.
FRANZ KAFKA Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
E. W. HOWE I would never put my close friends or a real relationship on a show.
KRISTIN CAVALLARI Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I ca...
CHRISTINA AGUILERA I have had interviews and got close to taking a managerial job. I would consider going back into foo...
ALAN SHEARER Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.
CHAD HARBACH I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make...
MAC DEMARCO Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of ...
SAM ALTMAN I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstra...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors.
JUDD NELSON My father was the president of the Hearst Corporation, and my parents were close friends of the Duke...
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RABIH ALAMEDDINE I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a d...
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