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Sentences Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through…
- If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
- If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word…
- When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've…
- Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You…
- What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter;…
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- If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence. — John Banville
- Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath… — Jean Baudrillard
- Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so… — Jean Baudrillard
- All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of… — Charles A. Beard
- You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal. — Lewis Black
- Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. — Niels Bohr
- I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try… — Anthony Bourdain
- I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer… — Anthony Bourdain
- When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up. — Albert Brooks
- My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal. — Geraldine Brooks
- Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche… — Jackson Browne
- If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. — Charles Bukowski