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Born Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
- Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and…
- Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount…
- Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.
- To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy…
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- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was… — Margaret Atwood
- Art is born of humiliation. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
- You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is… — Sai Baba
- The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you… — Richard Bach
- A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. — Gaston Bachelard
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- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon