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Rabih Alameddine Quotes
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A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy. (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history. (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn’t fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke. (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
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. (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read. (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990, spanned four World Cups. It would have been a more symmetrical five had the Lebanese begun in 1974, but you know, we’re Mediterranean, and timing isn’t our forte. (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
...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 Quotes)
Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable. (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
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. (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I think I’m being conservative when I say there are more people playing soccer in the United States than in 90% of the world’s other countries, probably 95%. (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
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 Quotes)
In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English. (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague. (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
A player should be disparaged if he gives less than his all, if he doesn’t give 100%, no matter what shirt he’s wearing. Whether it’s your national team, your club, or little league. Yes, there are friendly matches, recreational ones, and so on, but sport in its essence is about giving your best. (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Had I known that coffee could taste so good, I would have gotten drunk on it every day (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
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. (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always rooted against them, always. (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
Now I love hoops. I’m a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the 1812 Overture.’ Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky. (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so. (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA. (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
I know many sports fans that don’t enjoy soccer. The argument is that there’s no action, not enough of it. (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
The eye always fills in the imperfections (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
... 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 Quotes)
I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality (Rabih Alameddine Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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