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Such Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different…
- Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
- I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than…
- Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of…
- There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
- I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was…
- If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such…
- Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to…
- Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.
- Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or…
- A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the…
- Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then…
- Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved;…
- 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…
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- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
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- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
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- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
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- All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that… — David Attenborough