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Self Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels…
- As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to…
- When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
- A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
- Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to…
- We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about…
- We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster