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Fall Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
- The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the…
- Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
- I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of…
- I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.
- The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who…
- When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that…
- we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the…
- If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can…
- How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of…
- Is birth always a fall?
- Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.
- Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope…
More Fall Quotes
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. — Lance Armstrong
- Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or… — Mary Kay Ash
- From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review,… — Isaac Asimov
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine
- To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila