“I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.”

— Rabih Alameddine, book An Unnecessary Woman

Source: An Unnecessary Woman

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Lebanese-American painter and writer. 1959

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