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Only 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…
- A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in…
- Freedom to reject is the only freedom.
- 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…
- I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
- The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.
- The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
- There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
- If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual…
- I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be…
- 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…
- My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
- Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one. "The only people who can see the whole picture," he murmured, "are…
- The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
- 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…
- Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that the ugliness of…
- India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
- 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…
- I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which…
- When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but…
- 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…
- We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.
- We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define…
- The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
More Only Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle