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1090 Indian Quotes

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Action Becomes Excess Finest
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Become Facts Legends Make
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Ceases Exist Expression Freedom
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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

Agree Deficient Deserve Lives
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Against Asked Bite Religion
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

About Becomes Events Extraordinary
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

Corners Easy Escapes Fuss
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Conservative Defense Freedom Frighten
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Both Fight Groups Images
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Act Authors Books Choose
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

Being Central Century Condition
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

Apartment Becomes Fate First
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

About Been Difficulty Examining
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

Actually Better Blowing Change
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

Become Books Clearly Concerned
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

Anywhere Beautiful Big Countryside
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It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

About Always Because Books
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
Away Best Drops Else
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

Feel Free Living Only
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

Armed Combat Decide Engage
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

Friends Had Health High
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

Gets Interesting Lives Way
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The world is a very abnormal place.

Abnormal Place Very World
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

Came Horrible Never Rejected
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It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.

Another Credibility Find Had
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The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Became Denied Insult Life
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You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.

Being Discuss Great Loss
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The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

Act Believe Blowing Bomber
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Employee Just Movies Servant
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'

Accounts Afraid Allowed Asked
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

Based Been Date Ideas
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

Contemporary Gets History Message
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

Exceptions General Can Think
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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

Always Desk Discipline Get
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If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.

About Children Leaving Them
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.

Am Books Business Suppressing
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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

Attack Based Caused Countries
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

Accepted Family Female Friends
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

Away Power Taking Think
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I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

Again Am Fall Going
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
Because Books Endure Enough
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I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

Advertising Am Bear Because
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

Always Days Falls Great
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We took such a beating on Bofors. As far as I know, no one from my government was involved.

Beating Far Government Involved
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I find I have less time for everything. The assembly elections came so soon, and there is still so much work to be done.

Assembly Came Done Elections
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I think what Punjab needs today is vigorous economic development and rebuilding of trust and social cohesion.

Cohesion Development Economic Needs
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There has to be a national consensus. We cannot legislate without overwhelming national consensus that religious and communal groups should be totally banned from politics.

Banned Cannot Communal Consensus
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The secretariat will play a pivotal role in decision-making above a certain level, where basic policies are involved, but below that, we will have to leave the implementation to whoever is in charge.

Above Basic Below Certain
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What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.

Ancestors Behind Companies Continue
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If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.
Public Scrutiny Stand Stands
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