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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise. Salman Rushdie
Like Surprise Huge Behave Bigots
Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it. Salman Rushdie
You Censorship About Writers Talk Doing Stops Want Them Thing
When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear. Salman Rushdie
Respect People Fear Cowardly About Thing
The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down. Salman Rushdie
People World Try Move On Down Most Deal Move Upset Burn Us Planet Full Things
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism. Salman Rushdie
Business Strange World Live Increasingly Insane Seems Writer New Surrealism Which Realism
People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with. Samuel Richardson
People Ought Angels Like Deal Act Who
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. Samuel Richardson
Hope Lover Seldom Exclude Refusal Explicit Widow
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. Saul Bellow
War Money Evils Ability Instance Identification Go Survive To Survive Ever
A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study. Saul Bellow
Best Good Worth More Study Scientific Than Novel
Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry. Scott Turow
Education Democracy Knowledge Public Education Our Citizenry Maintain Like Well-Informed Access Pillars Public Public Access Widespread Guarantee
I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time. Sebastian Faulks
Life Time Valuable Value Thought Life Is A Lasts Way Criterion Something Only Poets Because Am Human Just Sensation Just Because Romantic Literary Whether Which Mean Then Fleeting Human Life Who Whole Waste Waste Of Time
Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children. Shirley Jackson
Life Memoir Children Among Disrespectful Savages
I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes. Shirley Jackson
Best Me Job Too Give Give Me Cleaned Never Proud Western Person Handout Manager Wanted Ask Worker Who Homes
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Finger Touch Wing Never Your Butterfly
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Our Perfect Never Feet Than Fewer Companions Four
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Matter Furnishing Worse Find Absence Ugliness Than Far Certain
You do not notice changes in what is always before you. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
You Before Changes Always Notice
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
First Breath Live Other Worlds Unknown Dream Only Between Narrow Them Us Planet Choice Two
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Meets Once Bad Hat Rarely Absolute Lifetime Part Fellow Him Always Real Authentic Artist Decent Real Thing Ordinary Even Villain Thing
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble. Sinclair Lewis
Sense Of Humor Human Being Humor Will Trouble Sense No Sense Never He Known Insults Human Being Endure Two
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form. Sinclair Lewis
Courage Bad Very Form
Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future. Siri Hustvedt
Hope Future Creativity More Both Openness Always Depended Us Flexibility Let Us
In August of 2002, I survived a car accident. Although I can still see the van speeding toward us, I cannot bring to mind the crash itself - only its aftermath. Siri Hustvedt
Car Mind Accident Speeding Van See Only Toward Although Still August Itself Survived Crash Aftermath Cannot Us Car Accident Bring
Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'chemical imbalances in the brain,' as if spontaneous neural events with no relation to anything outside a person's brain cause depression and anxiety. Siri Hustvedt
Depression Anxiety Events Cause Example Relation Both Neural Outside For Example Spontaneous Chemical Repeatedly Brain Person Anything Disorders Media
It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant. Siri Hustvedt
Character Sympathy Penetrate Characters Easy Empathy Make Off Very Lack Repugnant Cut Hard Who Damaged
Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with all its challenges. Sonia Levitin
Challenges Writing World Made Ours About Through New Learn New Friends Continue Friends Wonder
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