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Own Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great…
- Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every…
- 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…
- A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
- Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
- 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…
- There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A…
- 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…
- When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever…
- They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that…
- Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.
- Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality,…
- Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov