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Salman Rushdie

"Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness."

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Donna Grant

"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

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Donna Grant

"Blessed is the womb that born you."

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Donna Grant

"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

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Donna Grant

"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

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Donna Grant

"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

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Donna Grant

"Children are angels."

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Donna Grant

"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

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Donna Grant

"We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers."

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Donna Grant

"Wrapped in a mother's love is the most beautiful and safest place on earth for a child."

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Donna Grant

"Make your wife happier, children wiser, yourself kinder, and you will make your life better."

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Salman Rushdie
"What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy."

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Salman Rushdie
"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."

Work

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Salman Rushdie
"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

Act

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Salman Rushdie
"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."

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Salman Rushdie
"I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important."

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Salman Rushdie
"Nothing is forever, he thought beyond closed eyelids somewhere over Asia Minor. Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream. Or if not unhappiness, then at least melancholy."

Emotion

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Salman Rushdie
"Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms."

Music

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Salman Rushdie
"Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. "It's finished," we tell one another, "it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End."

Mythology

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Salman Rushdie
"When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear."

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Salman Rushdie
"For to the arguments of great thinkers there is no end, the idea of argument itself being a tool to improve the mind, the sharpest of all tools, born of the love of knowledge, which is to say, philosophy."

Philosophy

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