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Rabih Alameddine Quotes

We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.

Rabih Alameddine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: lebanese
Birth: 1959

Topics

Story America Over Tell Seem Here

It's impossible for me to disentangle how much of my storytelling urge is the product of growing up with novelist parents and how much is a genetic legacy from those same parents.

Jesse Kellerman

Parents Me Growing Up Legacy Growing

You wouldn't want to see the size of the check that I would write if it would for sure get the Dallas Cowboys a Super Bowl.

Jerry Jones

You Super Bowl Want Write Size See

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

Jerome K. Jerome

Fun Doing You Nothing No Fun

Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

John Lahr

Age Story American Momentum Dream

I don't think about second or third place.

Maurice Greene

Think Place Second Third About

I have a certain memory of the way in which my father loved me until I was 10, and it was unconditional and eternal. I get to carry that for the rest of my life, but on a practical level after age 10, it's just me sort of figuring it out.

Sterling K. Brown

Life Father Age Memory Me Rest

Although our rules and laws are now officially colorblind, they operate to discriminate in a grossly disproportionate fashion.

Michelle Alexander

Fashion Rules Now Laws Colorblind

I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it.

Louis Theroux

Father Writing Saw Valued He Much

It doesn't hurt to hear talk about the Spain national team.

Julen Lopetegui

Team Hurt Talk Spain Hear National

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Joseph Joubert

Poetry You Find Will Bring Some

People ask about love. Real love. I was never in love; the people around me didn't love me. They were just along for the ride.

Dick Dale

Love Ride People Me Love Me Never

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

Chen Guangcheng

Me Doing Conscience Just