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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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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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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This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.
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Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
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I like to believe there are ghosts all over the place!
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The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.
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We are tornadoes that pick up fragments with the most varied historical and biological origins. This makes of us -- thankfully -- fickle agglomerations that maintain a fragile equilibrium, that are inconsistent and complex, that can't be reduced to any fixed framework that does not inevitably leave out a great deal. Which is why the more effective stories resemble ramparts from which one can gaze out at everything that has been excluded.
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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.
