#thing

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#ball game #free #free speech #game #itself

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#best #drops #else #everything #out

I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#beautiful #big #countryside #fact #i

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#easily #make #power #room #solitude

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. ↗

— John Ruskin

#done #ever #nobly #nothing #pride

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ↗

— John Ruskin

#bad #bad weather #braces #delicious #different

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. ↗

— John Ruskin

#cannot #cheaper #consider #hardly #lawful

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves. ↗

— John Ruskin

#leaves #only #such #things

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. ↗

— John Ruskin

#angry #anything #must #sin #would

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. ↗

— John Ruskin

#nothing #true #which