Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
Salman Rushdie Quotes
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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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.