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There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

Rabih Alameddine

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

Tags: appearance, desire, vanity

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About Rabih Alameddine

Rabih Alameddine (Arabic: ربيع علم الدين; born 1959) is an American painter and writer. His 2021 novel The Wrong End of the Telescope won the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.