Salman Rushdie Fall Quotations
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- William Shakespeare
- Henry David Thoreau
- Jodi Picoult
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- J R R Tolkien
- Cassandra Clare
- Rajneesh
- Rumi
- Haruki Murakami
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- John Green
- Paulo Coelho
- Rick Riordan
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Pope Francis
- Chuck Palahniuk
- George R R Martin
- Lauren Oliver
- D H Lawrence
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Powerful Quotes
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.
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Life Quotes
How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?
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Betrayal Quotes
How does newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it survive, extreme and dangerous as it is? What compromises, what deals, what betrayals of its secret nature must it make to stave off the wrecking crew, the exterminating angel, the guillotine? Is birth always a fall? Do angels have wings? Can men fly?
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Real Quotes
The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it -when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.