Top 38 Rawi Hage Quotes

#1. Poor Mary. They married her to Jesus, and Jesus is an asexual circumcised revolutionary. What future is there to be had in that scenario?

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#2. Nothing to be proud of, nothing to regret.

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#3. The moon should be colonised, I thought. Mankind should seek a happier beginning, and humans should be free to stroll hand in hand regardless of their weight and orientation.

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#4. So long, I replied, may we all have one good flight before we rest among flowers and the orbits of hungry worms.

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#5. There are two ways to taste things in life: the sweet way and the bitter way.

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#6. This lesser world is all about reproduction, as you might well know. Those who cease to duplicate simply die.

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#7. Here in these circuses and carnivals we all love each other with our oddities and queernesses.

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#8. There is a war out there, and believe me, Fly, it was never really between Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Crusaders and Confucius. The final battle is between those who love, respect, and liberate the body and those who hate it

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#9. What reader or dreamer doesn't imagine the romantic life of a writer, who lingers between the desk and the fridge in the morning and in the evening attends cocktail parties thrown by nouveaux riches and the society ladies who hardly ever have the time to read?

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#10. I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets!

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#11. Miller is overrated. Ninety percent of his writing is incomprehensible, and incantation of the word cunt does not make you a sexual liberator.

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#12. There is nothing like the cure of fresh air for cases of bladder infection, paranoia, and Cartesian thinking.

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#13. God created each one of us with a light inside. I've had sex with all kinds of people; every single person has a kind of beam inside that shines once they are touched properly.

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#14. In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one should follow the tracks of the camels.

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#15. I don't judge those who can't dream, those who need to pierce their arms to create different worlds under their skin, because I am fortunate in the tools of my escapes

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#16. All those who leave immigrate to better lives, but I wanted to better my death. Maybe it is the ending that matter, not the life, I thought. Maybe we, like elephants, walk towards our chosen burials.

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#17. All libraries must submit to a certain order, I answered. Indeed, agreed the professor, or all will be lost. The fall of nations and empires begins with the fall of libraries.

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#18. Books were always important. I have to thank my father, he filled my life with books. He didn't write but he always read. He was a merchant, he filled the store with cigarette smoke and his friends, all talking about books and politics. It was bad for business. He dealt in women's clothing.

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#19. What do the stars believe in, Zainab? Where do the dead horses go, what do the birds worship, and what do the rivers live for?

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#20. The God-fearing, churchgoing farmers are all gone. Now they all have TVs on their roofs and orgies in their barns. The flux, Fly, man, the flux of time. If everything goes tits up, there's always the farm and the cows ...

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#21. What the fuck is legal in this universe? Stars eat each other, wolves eat the pigs, and Grandma fucks over Little Red Riding Hood.

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#22. When a woman enters my house, a tunnel of books welcomes her, a carnival of heroes bounces from every corner, and I lead her straight through the welcoming applause of writers and mice.

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#23. Fiction is overrated, Fly. We've discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a thousand kids die from malnutrition. Immediacy, man, that's what counts.

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#24. Violence and resistance are the only answer. Empire has to feel pain or it will never stop devouring you. It is only when a gun is put in a person's face that anything changes. All empires are hungry cannibals ...

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#25. Jazz and vodka, the fuel of resistance.

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#26. Everyone loves a comedy, my dear. It is divine.

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#27. Then let's treat all these holy texts as stories, fictions, and imperfections that could excite us to tears or erections.

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#28. Everything about her seems to be saying, Listen, if you don't look attentively, if you don't go beyond my simplicity to detect the simmering volcano in me, you are not it.

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#29. There will always be a just fight and a cause to die for.

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#30. People live their lives thinking that they are forgotten, and that is why we do the most outrageous things, so as not to go unnoticed

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#31. I tried gambling and it never paid off, women make you suffer, and greed has no end ...

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#32. Other humans gaze at the sky, but I say unto you, the only way through the world is to pass through the underground.

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#33. We are all the products and victims of our own upbringing, until we reflect, refuse, and rebel.

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#34. I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser.
Well, let's talk Algeria then. Let's talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.

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#35. My steps were muffled. It was quiet, so quiet that I felt as if I did not walk but instead crawled in silence. The snow covered everthing and I walked above cotton, on silent carpets, on beach sand. Softness is temporary and deceiving. It gently receives you and gently expels you.

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#36. Never underestimate a clown with a book.

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#37. The visual and the popular are essential.

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#38. Communists and Muslims are not the enemies to fear in this land, Fly. It is the food consumption that will eventually blow up in everyone's faces.

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