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A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
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You can tell how well a marriage is working by counting the bite marks on each partner's tongue.
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Of course, the pile grows and grows until I decide that I'm not going to buy a single book until I read my stack. Sometimes that works.
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My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always rooted against them, always.
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I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.
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I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
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I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.
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If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
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Soccer is the most widely played sport in the U.S.
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The presence of another person - of any person whatsoever - makes me feel awkward,
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Causation extraction makes Jack a dull reader.
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Childhood is played out in a foreign language and our memory of it is a Constance Garnett translation.
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Passion was the antithesis of morality.
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The memory seems both real and unreal, reliable and tenuous, solid and insubstantial.
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In reality, the only true model of a successful woman was the Divine Sarah.
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Satan said, You are a temp in life.
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We are all children when we sleep.
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Anyone who says the pen is mightier than the sword has never come face-to-face with a gun.
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In her world, husbands were omnipotent, never impotent.
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The story of the king is the story of the people, and unfortunately, to this day, no king has learned that lesson.
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I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.
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Peaks cannot exist without valleys.
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I was a tourist in a bizarre land. I was home.
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Belief is the enemy of a storyteller
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.
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In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.
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Reality never meets our wants, and adjusting both is why we tell stories.
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In Czech, according to Milan Kundera, litost is a state of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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There are a few places on the East Coast, and maybe Los Angeles, where women understand evening gowns. The rest of the country still has far to go.
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How can she tell the difference between freedom and unburdening?
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Isn't a sensitive soul simply a means of transforming a deficiency into proud disdain?
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Transmuting this sandy metaphor, if literature is my sandbox, then the real world is my hourglass - an hourglass that drains grain by grain.
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I never wanted to be prominent enough to have enemies.
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In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.
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No, I might be able to poke fun at the Quran for its childishly imperious content, but not for its style.
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When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
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I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse: the dark inside, or the darkness out.
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.
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The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now.
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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
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One reason we desire explanations is that they separate us and make us feel safe.
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I am a reader. Yes, I am that, a reader with nagging back pain.
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I'm a failed narcissist.
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No matter how good a story is, there is more at stake in the telling.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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She felt the intimate loss of who she was meant to become.
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I love the idea of homeland, but not the actual return to one.
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Almost everything that men have said best has been said in Greek.
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Hope, the great deceiver, seduced her that morning.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo.
I was not, I was, I am not, I don't care. — Rabih Alameddine
I was not, I was, I am not, I don't care. — Rabih Alameddine
When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.
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Translation is so important. The new American translations of the Bible sound like a Judith Krantz novel.
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If I happen to come across a garden these days, I burst into bloom.
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I am my family's appendix, it's unnecessary appendage. - Aaliya
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I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude yourself if you want to carry on in this life.
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You can say that Lebanese has hundreds of lexemes for family relations. Family to the Lebanese is as snow to the Inuit.
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He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us. (p. 70)
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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The eye always fills in the imperfections.
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Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.
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No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed. I
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The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.
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She felt the intimate loss of who was meant to become.
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No snake is as venomous as wounded privilege.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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Beirut has survived for thousands and thousands of years by spreading her beautiful legs for every army within smelling distance.
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I am a functioning human being. Mostly. Just so you don't make too much fun of me, the mostly above refers to functioning, not to human being.
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I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it.
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Had I known that coffee could taste so good, I would have gotten drunk on it every day.
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My patience, like my time in this world, grows shorter.
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I try to live without interfering in the lives of others because I have no wish for them to interfere in mine.
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No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been. No nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed.
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She was socially inept, an affliction I am quite intimate with.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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Literature gives me life, and life kills me. Well, life kills everyone.
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To write is to know that you are not at home.
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Memory, memoir, autobiography - lies, lies, all lies.
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I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.
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Her appearance has changed as well, and I don't mean just the intense reticulation of lines and wrinkles, the true stigmata of life.
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No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
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Among the many definitions of progress, "enemy of trees" and "killer of birds" seem to me the most apt.
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As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.
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I realised when it came to men, I did not pick the beautiful or the correct. I picked the wrong one.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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Joy is the anticipation of joy.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, and pay attention. We're there. We've always been.
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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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One of the things I enjoy most during the World Cup is watching a team improve, mature, and gel during the course of the tournament.
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There is none more conformist than one who flaunts his individuality.
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