"optimism is a disease" — Salman Rushdie
"optimism is a disease"
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Salman Rushdie
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482 Quotes by Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie has 482 quotes on this site.
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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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The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious…
— Chester A. Arthur
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
— Francis Bacon
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Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The…
— James A. Baldwin
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Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
— Daniel Barenboim
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.…
— Saint Basil
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
— Saint Basil
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Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
— Mario Batali
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I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there…
— Melody Beattie
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At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting…
— Martha Beck
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
— Andrew Bernstein
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know…
— Wendell Berry
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Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the…
— Grace Abbott
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