Salman Rushdie Quotes
The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
Quotes to Explore
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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I'm curvy.
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
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Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.
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A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.
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It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.
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If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.
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I'm going to join them", he said. And he did. When Sveva fled, Rath stayed and fought with the rebels. And died with them, right there at the toes of the mountains. And was dragged with them into a big pile. And burned
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
