A Quote by Salman Rushdie

Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.

Salman Rushdie

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Becomes Else Enough Everything Everything Else Furniture Like Live Long Part Shame

Quote Author

Salman Rushdie
Indian - Novelist
Born: June 19, 1947

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Today I will learn to reject shame. Shame is an overwhelming sense that who I am isn't good enough. I realize that I am good enough, and that my imperfections are part of being human. I let go of shame.

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I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before.

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Lisa Kleypas

That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

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There's something special in music about the repetition of playing something where it becomes a home and a fortress and a space that you inhabit, like maybe we could move this little thing here, or rearrange the furniture. You're so acquainted with every part of it.