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Used Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
- As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used…
- I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it…
- I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one…
- The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune,…
- The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points…
- War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total…
- From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used… — Margaret Atwood
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of… — Jane Austen
- What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the… — Paul Auster
- I could sell used battery acid and make it fly. — Dan Aykroyd
- A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved… — Charles Babbage
- Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of… — Charles Babbage
- I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my… — Lauren Bacall
- I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure. — Sebastian Bach