"I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Two Quotes #Chinese Quotes #Literature Quotes

“I don't do nothinâ€™ I don't want to do.”
“Every minute was more exciting than the next.”
“We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.”
“And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and their Governors shall be so weak or so wicked, as for the sake of keeping their places, to be made the instruments in putting them in execu tion, who will presume to say that the people have not a right, or that it is not their indispensible duty to God and their Country, by all rational means in their power to RESIST THEM.”
“In every moment the Universe is whispering to you.”

Source : Denise Linn (2010). “Unlock the Secret Messages of Your Body!: A 28-Day Jump-Start Program for Radiant Health and Glorious Vitality (Large Print 16pt)”, p.98, ReadHowYouWant.com
“In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.”
“We earn what we get - most of us - and, sweet heaven help us! we get it. God does not always pay on Saturday - but He Pays.”
“When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.”

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