Rawi Hage Quotes

• Never underestimate a clown with a book.

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  Book, Underestimate, Clown

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

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• 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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  Stars, Lost Ones, Cities

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

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• 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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  Father, Book, Writing

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• 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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  Dream, Judging, Skins

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

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

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  Thinking, Air, Paranoia

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

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

  Rawi Hage

  Doctors, Cadavers, Wonder

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

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