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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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"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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"Life is defined by time and seasons."

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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

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"A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth."

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"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

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"If you don't capture the moments, it will be gone forever."

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"Hurry up, before there's no more night left."

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"They say "time is money". But I want to say "time makes money". This means time is greater than money."

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"There is an appropriate time to release somebody or to give them a break."

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"But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time's fool,And Time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop."

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"We were the only two people in the entire airport who lost total track of time, for we were consumed by space-time at that present moment. Time was irrelevant to our existence, for we didn't want to exist outside the tight and glorious knots of each other's arms. Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future. All that there is, is the present."

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"Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination, and of the heart."
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"Running along the bank was a white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and looking worriedly at a clock. Appearing and disappearing at various points on both banks was a dark blue British police telephone booth, out of which a perplexed-looking man holding a screwdriver would periodically emerge. A group of dwarf bandits could be seen disappearing into a hole in the sky. "Time travelers," said Nobodaddy in a voice of gentle disgust. "They're everywhere these days."
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"I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me."
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"Realism can break a writer's heart."
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"If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it."
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"As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too."
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"There is no bitterness like that of man who finds out he has been believing in a ghost."
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"Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey."
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"I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in."
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