"Freedom to reject is the only freedom."

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Salman Rushdie

#Rejects Quotes

“Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.”

Source : Naomi Shihab Nye (2008). “Habibi”, p.198, Simon and Schuster
“Itâ€™s not what you do some of the time that counts, itâ€™s what you do all of the time that counts.”
“Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.”
“Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?”
“Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.”
“Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.”
“I'm from where your hustle determines your salary.”
“Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.”

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