"Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit."

Habit, Being, Earth, Names

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"Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit."

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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Habit,

"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Habit, Habits, World

"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Habit,

"Habits grow like dragons if you feed them."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Habit, Power, Truth, Wisdom, Regret

"Habit is the nursery of errors."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Habit, Errors

"You are not smoking cigarette, it's cigarette that is smoking you."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

Habit, Addiction, Irony, Control, Health

"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Habit, Effect, Excess, Moderation

"Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."

Mark Twain, American Author

Habit, Change, Patience, Progress

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Habit, Reading, Ambition, Books, Procrastination

"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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Explore more quotes by Salman Rushdie

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

Power

"This may be the curse of the human race, not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike."

Behavior

"Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless."

Empowerment

"Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment."

Mental Health

"We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities. We take pride in our short fuses. Our anger elevates, transcends."

Anger

"I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what is inexpressible, our dreams of otherness, of more."

Expression

"As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper."

Storytelling

"An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings."

Storytelling

"Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - 'Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new."

Storytelling

"Our group takes what I'll call a Post-Atheist stance. Our position is that god is a creation of human beings, who only exists because of the clap-hands-if-you-believe-in-fairies principle. If enough people were sensible enough not to clap hands, then this Tinker Bell god would die. However, unfortunately, billions of human beings are still prepared to defend their belief in some sort of god-fairy, and, as a result, god exists. What's worse is that he is now running amok."

Belief