637 quotes found
“...that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver tongue affords enchantment enough.”
“What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?”
“Alone, [Chamcha] all at once remembered that he and Pamela had once disagreed, as they disagreed on everything, on a short-story theyd both read, whose theme was precisely the nature of the unforgi...”
“Dear Forgiveness, you know that recentlywe have had our difficulties and there are many thingsI want to ask you.”
“Also for there had been more than a few migrants aboard, yes, quite a quantity of wives who had been grilled by reasonable, doing-their-job officials about the length of and distinguishing moles u...”
“If we could stop thinking of 'meaning' and 'purpose' as artifacts of some divine creative act and see them instead as the yield of our own creative future, they become goals, intentions and process...”
“This is what loss was, what death was: an escape into the luminous wave-forms, into the ineffable speed of the light-years and the parsecs, the eternally receding distances of the cosmos.”
“Sardar Harbans Singh passed away peacefully in a wicker rocking-chair in a Srinigar garden of spring flowers and honeybees with his favourite tartan rug across his knees and his beloved son, Yuvraj...”
“When you pray for what you most want in the world, its opposite comes along with it. I was given a woman whom I truly loved and who truly loved me. The opposite side of such a love is the pain of i...”
“Never underestimate love, as you need estimate to underestimate.”
“We live and we die, but we are made of sterner stuff. The carbon atoms in our fingernails, the calcium in our bones, the iron atoms in our blood -- all the countless trillions of atoms of which we ...”
“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while...”
“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.I can...”
“Computers don't kill books people do.”
“Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.”
“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.”
“The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.”
“Try to knock us down, we'll get up every time. "24/Seven”
“Everyone had learned that it was worth giving up privacy for the merest possibility of fame, and the idea that only a private self was truly autonomous and free had be lost in the static of the air...”
“Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.”
