Top 60 Quotes by Rabih Alameddine

Soccer is the most widely played sport in the U.S.

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.

'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.

I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.

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.

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always rooted against them, always.

A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.

When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.

I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.