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I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#around #become #carry #corner #creature

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#always #because #books #disappointing #know

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

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#christian #christian religion #churches #deliberately #enemy

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#been #could #evidence #i #life

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy. ↗

— George William Russell

#easier #forgive #forgive me #found #give me

I know I come off differently than I think of myself. I'm always surprised by what people say about me. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#always #come #differently #i #i think

For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#anything #assurance #earth #fullness #god

I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#i #industry #just #life #like

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious. ↗

— Richard Russo

#disingenuous #frequently #hilarious #humor #i