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Rabih Alameddine - The Hakawati (2008)

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By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across—each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip—is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.

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What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

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Born: 1959 (age 67)
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