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Life Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- Free speech is life itself.
- Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.
- What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive;…
- A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return…
- Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion'. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
- Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but…
- In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
- I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some…
- Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
- Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
- All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
- I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
- 'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
- The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously,…
- It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at…
- Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which…
- Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted…
- I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual…
- I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of…
- If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems…
- 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…
- One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew…
- One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my…
- The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas…
- What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle