"Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in……" — Salman Rushdie
"Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path."
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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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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So…
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If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
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Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her…
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Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated…
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The suit was so clumsy, being pressurized, it was impossible to get two hands comfortably on the handle and it's…
— Alan Shepard
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However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.
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The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be…
— George V. Higgins
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Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
— Karl Kraus
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile…
— J. B. Priestley
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I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person,…
— George R. R. Martin
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Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.
— William Klein
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