"...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."

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Source : Rabih Alameddine (2008). “The Hakawati”, p.450, Anchor

Rabih Alameddine

#Perspective Quotes #Perception Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I've also been busy doing stuff for Steve Jackson Games.”
“You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.”
“In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented in books. [] there simmered all the feelings no one ever admits to.”

Source : Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.15, Pan Macmillan
“I want you to be nice...until it's time to not be nice.”

Source : "Fictional character: Dalton". "Road House", www.imdb.com. 1989.
“My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.”
“It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.”
“I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.”

Source : "Asking Candidates Tougher Questions About Faith" by Bill Keller, www.nytimes.com. August 25, 2011.

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