Rabih Alameddine quotes

I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic. (Rabih Alameddine)

... What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

Rabih Alameddine

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

Rabih Alameddine

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

Rabih Alameddine

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

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?

Rabih Alameddine

The eye always fills in the imperfections.

Rabih Alameddine

If you sit with your memories, you might as well become a plant.

Rabih Alameddine

I don't sit down to write something politically or to challenge stereotypes. Being who I am, almost everything I do will be political, almost everything I do will be a challenge to those stereotypes...

Rabih Alameddine

I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was happening, still I stayed and let you carve more. That's how much I loved you. That's how much.

Rabih Alameddine

Rabih Alameddine

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Occupation: Lebanese-American Painter
Born: 1959
Quotes count: 10
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