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Language Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of…
- In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we…
- If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes…
- The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different…
- I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses -…
- If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through…
- We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
- Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
- Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
- He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.
- What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter;…
- Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious…
- Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech.…
More Language Quotes
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- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman
- The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. — Roger Babson
- A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. — Gaston Bachelard
- In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can… — Michelle Bachelet
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot