Rawi Hage quotes

“There is nothing like the cure of fresh air for cases of bladder infection, paranoia, and Cartesian thinking.”
-- Rawi Hage

Source : Rawi Hage (2013). “Carnival”, p.37, Penguin UK

#Thinking Quotes #Air Quotes #Paranoia Quotes

“Never underestimate a clown with a book.”
-- Rawi Hage

Source : Rawi Hage (2013). “Carnival: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

#Book Quotes #Underestimate Quotes #Clown Quotes

“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.”
-- Rawi Hage

Source : Rawi Hage (2013). “Carnival: A Novel”, p.131, W. W. Norton & Company

#Stars Quotes #Cities Quotes #Track Quotes

“I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets!”
-- Rawi Hage

Source : Rawi Hage (2013). “Carnival: A Novel”, p.6, W. W. Norton & Company

#Doctors Quotes #Cadavers Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“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”
-- Rawi Hage

Source : Rawi Hage (2013). “Carnival: A Novel”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

#Dream Quotes #Judging Quotes #Skins Quotes

“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.”
-- Rawi Hage

#Father Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.”

“I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.”

“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”

“This was why I loved my Grana. Being with her always made me laugh. She accepted life for what it was. She didn’t pretend or put on airs. She was just Grana.”

“To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse.”

Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

“My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh...”

“My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.”

“Success demands paranoia.”

Source : Joseph Finder (2014). “Paranoia”, p.20, Head of Zeus

“I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile.”

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

Source : Rawi Hage (2013). “Carnival”, p.37, Penguin UK