A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Socrates

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

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Let him that would move the world first move himself.

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

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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

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

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

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All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

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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.

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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Socrates

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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

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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.

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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

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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.

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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

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Gods Only Poets Interpreters

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

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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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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.

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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

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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.

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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

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Arts Communication Four Much

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I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

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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.

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I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

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I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

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End Following God Him

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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.

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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.

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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

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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.

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

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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

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Accord Apply Death Directly

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The world is a very abnormal place.

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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

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A Good Man After Death Either

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

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Came Horrible Never Rejected

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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

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Accident Americana Culture Declaration

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One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Socrates

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

Salman Rushdie

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Socrates

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

Salman Rushdie

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Socrates

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Salman Rushdie

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Socrates

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

Salman Rushdie

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

Salman Rushdie

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Socrates

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

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Socrates

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

Salman Rushdie

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.

Salman Rushdie

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Socrates

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.

Salman Rushdie

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Socrates

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

Salman Rushdie

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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.

Salman Rushdie

Socrates

Salman Rushdie

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

Don DeLillo

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

Don DeLillo

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Don DeLillo

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.

Salman Rushdie

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

Don DeLillo

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Socrates

Salman Rushdie

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

Don DeLillo

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

Don DeLillo

Socrates

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

Salman Rushdie

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

Salman Rushdie

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Socrates

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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

Salman Rushdie

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

Salman Rushdie

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Socrates