Quote by Salman Rushdie
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their s

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry. – Salman Rushdie

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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. – Salman Rushdie

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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. – Salman Rushdie

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Ive never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones. – Salman Rushdie

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Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number. – Anna Quindlen

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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. – James Russell Lowell

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