"When a reader falls in love with a……" — Salman Rushdie
"When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced."
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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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If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no…
— Jacque Fresco
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African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only seven percent of arable land in…
— Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin
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If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land…
— E. O. Wilson
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We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.
— Jeremy Grantham
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"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and…
— Abraham Cowley
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Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?" "Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian. "I don't…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the…
— F. Sionil Jose
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Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental…
— Tristram Stuart
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There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.
— Josiah Strong
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Five generations of back ache, wrinkles and empty penny jars.. why do we do it?! Dur its farming, simply loving…
— Laura Claxton
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