"The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event."

-- Salman Rushdie

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“Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.”
“What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.”
“My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet.”
“The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds.”
“But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.”
“Absolutely, one hundred percent, not guilty.”

Source : "A Piece of the Action" by David Nicholson, www.washingtonpost.com. November 3, 1996.
“The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated, except by those whose feelings are withered by vitiated society. Holy, simple, and beautiful in its construction, it is the emblem of all we can imagine of fidelity and truth.”
“Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.”

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