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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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I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief…
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Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating…
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It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on…
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...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they…
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We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and…
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In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in…
— Salman Rushdie
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There were occasionally rifts in the cloud where the face of a woman appeared, frowning.
— Frank O'Hara
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Because love is the great commandment, it ought to be at the center of all and everything we do in our own…
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