"What's the use of stories that aren't even true?"

-- Salman Rushdie

#Stories Quotes #Use Quotes

“After eating a hundred mice, the cat makes a hadj to Mecca.”

Source : Shauna Singh Baldwin (2011). “The Tiger Claw”, p.309, Vintage Canada
“You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.”

Source : T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.161, Penguin
“Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover.”
“I'm a walker. I enjoy walking, which I think psychologically expresses my feelings of wanting liberation without exerting myself too much.”
“When I first moved to L.A., I thought about turning gay. Then I realized none of the guys I was interested in was good enough for me.”
“The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.”

Source : "Voice of the Maghreb". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.
“[Muhammad] said, "...fight everyone in the way of God and kill those who disbelieve in God..."”
“It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that.”

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