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“Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?”

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Salman Rushdie (born June 19, 1947) is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. Known for his magical realism style, his novel Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981. His works often explore themes of cultural conflict, religion, and politics. In 1988, his novel The Satanic Verses sparked global controversy, leading to a fatwa issued by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini calling for his assassination. Rushdie spent years in hiding under police protection. He remains a prominent voice in contemporary English literature, celebrated for his literary innovation and defense of free expression. more

“I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. "Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures?" was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.”

Mother Certain Given Answers Silence Teaching Creatures Purity Diamond Nothingness Definite Living Creatures Roaring Beetles Snowy

Book:The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

“...even the donkeys were quiet.”

Quiet Donkey

Book:The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.”

Humans Wells Book Desire Reading Human Beings Levels Brain Intimate Nuance Slippery Snapping Delving

Author:Cynthia Heimel

“Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away”

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Book:A Further Range

Source: A Further Range

“You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.”

Lasts Movement Kissing Sweetest Best Friend Bright Star

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“If a shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection of the four-dimensional Universe.”

Ifs Knows World Two Universe Three Four Shadow Projection

Author:Marcel Duchamp

“When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.”

Men Hard Horse Drinking Debt Ran Beer Drinking Pints Drinking Toast Irish Beer Irish Drinking

Book:The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman

Source: The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman

“Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!”

Firsts Hands Christ Ireland Gloves Only Love

Book:The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

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