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Quotes by Writer
"Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed."
151
"I've done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I've been swindled all the same because it's never anything more."
149
"The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism."
147
"Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious."
146
"We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child."
145
"As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are."
144
"Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric."
Time,
140
"Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics."
140
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
139
"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic."
138
"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."
135
"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."
135
"In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world."
134
"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."
134
"Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history."
131
"The shortest distance between two people is a story."
130
"Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none."
119
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
117
"But an action which wants to serve man ought to be careful not to forget him on the way, if it chooses to fulfill itself blindly, it will lose its meaning or will take on an unforeseen meaning; for the goal is not fixed once & for all; it is defined all along the road which leads up to it."
117
"You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them."
115
"Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone."
114
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