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I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.

Rabih Alameddine

'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.

Rabih Alameddine

Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

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Close friends consider me a literary snob.

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Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.

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My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was only when we were both adults that we were able to share spectacles. However, football, and particularly the World Cup, was when we, enemy combatants, could traverse trenches and be together.

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No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

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A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.

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If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

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Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.

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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.

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I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.

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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.

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The reasons why a player is better on one club than on another are many. I certainly am not an expert and can't explain.

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I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.

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One of the things I enjoy most during the World Cup is watching a team improve, mature, and gel during the course of the tournament.

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In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.

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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

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In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.

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I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

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I think I'm being conservative when I say there are more people playing soccer in the United States than in 90% of the world's other countries, probably 95%.

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I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.

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I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.

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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.

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