"Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's,……" — Salman Rushdie
"Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete."
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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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More Discrete Quotes
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Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and…
— Alfred Kinsey
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Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it…
— Tim Birkhead
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The Nazi Party was, in the early 1920s, but one among many nationalist and volkisch radical political groups. It was…
— Unknown Author
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Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and…
— Alfred Kinsey
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I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today,…
— Hesiod
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The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like…
— Meg Wolitzer
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Childhood obesity isn't some simple, discrete issue. There's no one cause we can pinpoint. There's no one program we can…
— Michelle Obama
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Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that…
— Bill Mollison
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The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete.
— David Mumford
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to…
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as…
— David Whyte
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No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.
— Leslie Jamison
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