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| 4d0b85c | I don't want to take the women into the city until I know how things stand.' ' I'll tell you precisely how they stand,' Nicolo bitterly replied. 'The absolute ruler of this city is a Medici. The Pope is a Medici. People round here say that probably God is a Medici and as for the Devil, he's definitely one, beyond any doubt. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 1554601 | Strakh't be nai-vazhniiat posev za godinata, nadvisvashe ot plodovite dr'echeta vmesto iab'lki i praskovi, a pchelite go s'birakha vmesto med. Izpod pov'rkhnostta na plitkata voda na orizishchata izbuiavashe g'st strakh, a iz shafranovite polia strakh kato uviven buren zadushavashe delikatnite rasteniia. Strakh't zatlachvashe rekite kato voden ziumbiul , a po visokite pasbishcha bez vidima prichina izmirakha ovtse i kozi. Rabota se namirash.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 9f47bd1 | Get thee behind me, Satan. Seek not come between a lover and his love. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 889e846 | Human beings have a remarkable talent for persuading themselves of the authenticity and nobility of aspects of themselves which are in fact expedient, spurious, base. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| e9aebe4 | From 'The Suicide', a play by the Russian writer Nikolai Erdman: 'Only the dead can say what the living are thinking. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| ea3e7c6 | Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all. | fighting jealous jealousy love salman-rushdie the-satanic-verses | Salman Rushdie | |
| ba9fdfd | what a leveller this remote-control gizmo was...it chopped down the heavyweight and stretched out the slight until all the set's emissions, commercials, murders, game-shows, the thousand and one varying joys and terrors of the real and the imagined, acquired an equal weight... | media salman-rushdie the-satanic-verses | Salman Rushdie | |
| e13b84a | Yes, I know there is a fashion nowadays for these Hitler's-valet type memoirs, and many people are against, they say we should not humanise the inhuman. But the point is they are not inhuman, these Mainduck-style little Hitlers, and it is in their humanity that we must locate our collective guilt, humanity's guilt for human beings' misdeeds; for if they are just monsters - if it is just a question of King Kong and Godzilla wreaking havoc un.. | collective-guilt humanity | Salman Rushdie | |
| ed1e137 | She was my ground, my favorite sound, my country road, my city street, | Salman Rushdie | ||
| b452748 | Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be called "Rushdie," and stand where your father had placed you, in the tradition of the grand Aristotelian, Averroes, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd." -- | averroës fatwa free-speech history ibn-rushd literary memoir religion secularism terrorism war | Salman Rushdie | |
| d5b6899 | Being God's postman is no fun, yar. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 9003fa7 | He wanted, for example, to investigate why one should hold fast to a religion not because it was true but because it was the faith of one's fathers. Was faith not faith but simple family habit? Maybe there was no true religion but only this eternal handing down. And error could be handed down as easily as virtue. Was faith no more than an error of our ancestors? | Salman Rushdie | ||
| c692268 | When they saw the host of chameleon butterflies and the way they both clothed the girl Ayesha and provided her with her only solid food, these visitors were amazed, and retreated with confounded expectations, that is to say with a hole in their pictures of the world that they could not paper over. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 4595031 | The self was both its origins and its journey. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 6d45cf9 | It was always women who did the choosing, and men's place was to be grateful if they were lucky enough to be the chosen ones. Joseph Anton | Salman Rushdie | ||
| e954585 | Between the self and the other, between the visionary and the psychopath, between the lover and his love, between the overworld and the underworld, falls the Shadow. | philosophy | Salman Rushdie | |
| 31797c4 | But then the subject turned to the spiritual life and Meg talked about her many visits to ashrams in India and her admiration for Swami Muktananda and Gurumayi. That got in the way, especially because he told her of his skepticism regarding the guru industry, and suggested she might profitably read Gita Mehta's book Karma Cola. "Why are you so cynical?" she asked him, as if she genuinely wanted to know the answer, and he said that if you gr.. | india | Salman Rushdie | |
| c2e238b | To live in Metropolis was to know that the exceptional was as commonplace as diet soda, that abnormality was the popcorn norm. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 2a7d5c6 | Enough of invisibility, silence, timidity, defensiveness, guilt! An invisible, silenced man was an empty space into which others could pour their prejudices, their agendas, their wrath. The fight against fanaticism needed visible faces, audible voices. He would be quiet no longer. He would try to become a loud and visible man. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 016c004 | free speech isn't absolute. We have the freedoms we fight for and we lose those we don't defend. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| d7f90f9 | There is a thing that lives in us, eating our food, breathing our air, looking out through our eyes, and when it comes out to play nobody is immune; possessed, we turn murderously upon one another, thing-darkness in our eyes and real weapons in our hands, neighbour against thing-ridden neighbour, thing-driven cousin against cousin, brother-thing against brother-thing, thing-child against thing-child. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| c25ccda | That you are a worldly adult,' she said. 'You have spent your whole life letting go of the innocent dreams that made your childhood so warm and hopeful and full of certainty. Dream by dream you let them go. We all do it, to shield ourselves from disappointment. It's easy to shed them. Not so easy to get them back. | John Berendt | ||
| 064ffce | because it's my job. It's how I make my living. And I'll tell you somethin' else: It's damn hard work bein' a girl full | John Berendt | ||
| e03a543 | The tides surged through the marsh and each wave that hit the beach came light-struck and broad-shouldered, with all the raw power the moon could bestow. | tides | John Berendt | |
| 2e1c269 | Jim Williams's guilt or innocence is no longer the issue," he said. "Spencer Lawton's incompetence is the issue." | John Berendt | ||
| e759cb7 | more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know. | John Berendt | ||
| e7c2b66 | If you did not like the show, honey, my name is Nancy Reagan and go fuck yourself." Chablis" | John Berendt | ||
| 1ef0960 | rum-drinking pirates, strong-willed women, courtly manners, eccentric behavior, gentle words, and lovely music. | John Berendt | ||
| dd2f964 | To witness is to make the truth known, but we must remember that most victims have no voice of their own, and that in bearing witness to their stories we must not appropriate them. | Ha Jin | ||
| 3664e19 | Beauvoir was untouched by the criticisms; her diary was a record of one consciousness, her own: "This is what I saw and how I saw it. I have not tried to say more." | Alice Kaplan | ||
| 9ce0f63 | Alice Kaplan is a teacher of French language and literature, and she has done this kind of remembering in a book called French Lessons. "Why do people want to adopt another culture?" she asks as she summarizes her journey into teaching and into life. "Because there's something in their own they don't like, that doesn't name them."5" | Parker J. Palmer | ||
| e26618d | Someday I'll be a lawyer... someday I'll bring justice to people who need it. Lawyers are either legalized liars... or saviors of the truth. | court courtroom jurisprudence law lawyer legal liar savior truth | Rebecca McNutt | |
| e701002 | The fact is I am a compulsive reader. Thirty-five cents' worth of Gold Medal Original will put me right to sleep. Or Perry Mason. But I'll read the ads in an old Paris-Match that has been used to wrap herring before I'll do without. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| ab09405 | Lots of people wrote to the magazine to say that Marilyn vos Savant was wrong, even when she explained very carefully why she was right. Of the letters she got about the problem, 92% said that she was wrong and lots of these were from mathematicians and scientists. Here are some of the things they said: 'I'm very concerned with the general public's lack of mathematical skills. Please help by confessing your error.' -Robert Sachs, Ph.D., Geo.. | irony mathematics | Mark Haddon | |
| f10c5c0 | This resembles the slow discipline of art: it's the work that Rembrandt did, that Picasso and Yeats and Rilke and Bach did. Bucket work implies much more discipline than most men realize. | Robert Bly | ||
| 8c21a85 | READY TO SLEEP Don't be afraid The great lettuce of the world Is all around us. | Robert Bly | ||
| 7ae5756 | We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again, Drawing up from the great roots. | Robert Bly | ||
| dd291af | We have never understood how birds manage to fly, Nor who the genius is who makes up dreams, Now how heaven and earth can appear in a poem. | dreams earth genius heaven | Robert Bly | |
| e656b4c | If you had a sad childhood, so what? You can dance with only one leg and see the snowflake falling with only one eye. --ROBERT BLY | Mark Nepo | ||
| d379127 | contemporary man looks down into his psyche, he may, if conditions are right, find under the water of his soul, lying in an area no one has visited for a long time, an ancient hairy man. | Robert Bly | ||
| 5edfdf3 | I'm telling you that I will be all right without you. Everything we have is temporary, the joy, the suffering, everything. I had the joy of experiencing your goodness for a very long time. It was enough. I have no right to ask for more. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 44942d6 | Prota apo ola tha thela na po oti osa kano gia sena einai tsampa. Den khreiazetai na pleroseis. Opos xereis, uperxa apsogos mazi sou kai opos xereis, epises auto den ekhei kamia skhese me tis dikes mou ependuseis. Pairno omos kati anupologistes axias apo te skhese mas, ena eidos antamoibes pou pheromai apsoga. Kai auto pou pairno einai ekeino akribos to pragma pou den tha katalabeis e den tha s aresei. An me krineis sumphona me tis praxeis .. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 0ceab81 | Don Juan had always said to me that our great enemy is the fact that we never believe what is happening to us. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| b129e41 | that a warrior, aware of the unfathomable mystery that surrounds him and aware of his duty to try to unravel it, takes his rightful place among mysteries and regards himself as one. Consequently, for a warrior there is no end to the mystery of being, whether being means being a pebble, or an ant, or oneself. That is a warrior's humbleness. One is equal to everything. | Carlos Castaneda |