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- The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the…
- A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
- Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
- I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
- I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
- Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
- One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the…
- You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
- The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously,…
- It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the…
- Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live…
- At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in…
- Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which…
- Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and…
- I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers'…
- 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…
- If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without…
- In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the…
- Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount…
- Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person…
- My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I…
- The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get…
- The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous…
- 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 thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on…
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle