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Salman Rushdie has 485 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in…
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our…
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Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of…
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many…
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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand…
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Good advice is rarer than rubies.
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In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no…
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For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need…
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Free speech is life itself.
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After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
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If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a…
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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day…
— Joshua Slocum
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As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength…
— Salman Rushdie
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
— Eugene Ionesco
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The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship,
— Bashar al-Assad
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No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
— Horatio Nelson
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The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today…
— William Goldman
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Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and…
— Homer
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A captain always knows where his ship is. It's like a psychic bond." "If only we had a captain here.
— Marissa Meyer
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