"The glamour of being forbidden must not be…" — Salman Rushdie
"The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated."
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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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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
— Karen Armstrong
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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself…
— Johann Arndt
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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're…
— David Bowie
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I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every…
— Karel Capek
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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
— Alexis Carrel
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on…
— Frank Zappa
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After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
— Diane Ackerman
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
— Ovid
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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer…
— Angela Carter
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In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away…
— Saint Augustine
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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