"By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case."

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Source : Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.317, W. W. Norton & Company

Rabih Alameddine

#Country Quotes #Distance Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.”
“I think artists should define themselves. They should speak about their work and how it relates to society and what's going on in the world.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.”
“Knowing the right questions is better than knowing all the right answers" Caleb from Pretty Little Liars (TV Show)”
“The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.”
“Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.”
“But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed wasâ€”perhaps rightlyâ€”scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century.”
“I want to make America better!”

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