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The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not so much mainland Europe, for example. This professionalization is a tragedy. Hand in hand with this - and I have no idea what the causal relations are - there has been a rise in the idea of The Author, so that today one often has the impression that what's selling the book is not the book but the author.

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A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

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Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.

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During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.

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Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.

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The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have several identities, I only have one, made of all the elements that have shaped its unique proportions.

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Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

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