"Friendships are the family we make - not……" — Salman Rushdie
"Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family."
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482 Quotes by Salman Rushdie
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of…
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which,…
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Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the…
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds…
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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming.…
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Good advice is rarer than rubies.
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In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence…
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For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but…
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Free speech is life itself.
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After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
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If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to…
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More Affinities Quotes
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in…
— Sri Aurobindo
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
— George Santayana
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of…
— Joseph Paxton
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It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than…
— Remy de Gourmont
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The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may…
— Richard Owen
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Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all…
— Robert Greene
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Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.
— Louis Agassiz
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We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that…
— Oswald Chambers
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In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.
— Guillaume Canet
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