"Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people……" — Salman Rushdie
"Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive."
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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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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their…
— Francis Bacon
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us…
— Honore de Balzac
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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to…
— Bernard Baruch
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
— Josh Billings
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
— William Blake
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I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching…
— Mary J. Blige
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Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
— Les Brown
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Forgive those who have hurt you.
— Les Brown
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for…
— Samuel Butler
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