KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Rabih Alameddine Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Rabih Alameddine

Showing 1-10 of 60 Quotes by Rabih Alameddine

My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was only when we were both adults that we were able to share spectacles. However, football, and particularly the World Cup, was when we, enemy combatants, could traverse trenches and be together.

~Rabih Alameddine

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.

~Rabih Alameddine

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

~Rabih Alameddine

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

~Rabih Alameddine

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.

~Rabih Alameddine

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.

~Rabih Alameddine

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.

~Rabih Alameddine

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.

~Rabih Alameddine

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.

~Rabih Alameddine

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Close friends consider me a literary snob.

~Rabih Alameddine

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Lebanese

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

Links

Find Rabih Alameddine on Amazon

Related Authors

Salvador Dali
Vincent Van Gogh
Edward Hopper
Michelangelo
Georgia O'Keeffe
Pablo Picasso
Leonardo Da Vinci
Andy Warhol

Popular Authors

Winston Churchill George Eliot Jimmy Fallon Kevin Hart Steve Jobs Sophocles Alfred Lord Tennyson William Arthur Ward

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1694 - Voltaire

1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher

1787 - Bryan Procter

1863 - Arthur Quiller-Couch

1870 - Alexander Berkman

1886 - Harold Nicolson

1889 - Hugh Kingsmill

1898 - Rene Magritte

1904 - Coleman Hawkins

1907 - Jim Bishop

Birthdays on November 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Communication Courage Great Positive Thankful Travel Valentine's Day Work