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- Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the…
- One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as…
- Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly,…
- Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then…
- Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved;…
- I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally…
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- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
- I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security… — Michele Bachmann
- They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an… — Ginger Baker
- Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. — Abu Bakr
- It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. — James A. Baldwin
- The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a… — John Adams
- Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them… — Dave Barry
- To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil