#lt

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. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#because #change #conservative #crimes #culture

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#air #begins #constructs #fiction #givens

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#about #accidents #both #brought #conflict

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#been #difficulty #examining #history #how

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. ↗

— John Ruskin

#always #effort #intelligent #never #quality

There is no wealth but life. ↗

— John Ruskin

#wealth

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately. ↗

— John Ruskin

#complicated #difficult #easy #execution #expand

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. ↗

— John Ruskin

#depraved #disorder #healthy #order #perfect

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. ↗

— John Ruskin

#dead #drop #faults #good #imitate

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? ↗

— John Ruskin

#altogether #books #care #compared #horses