"Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true."

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Source : Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

Salman Rushdie

#Language Quotes #Speak Quotes #Ability Quotes

“The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest.”
“High self-esteem comes from feeling like you have control over events not that events have control over you.”
“To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.”
“What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods--even extended ones--of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?”
“They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.”

Source : Richard Wright (1991). “Works”
“I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.”
“I don't believe in the hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so called civilized-society”
“But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.”

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