A Quote by Salman Rushdie

Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.

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Salman Rushdie
Indian - Novelist
Born: June 19, 1947

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

Frank Herbert

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

Frank Herbert

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

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Sadakat Kadri

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Simon Schama

We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on to the next atrocity. There is always more atrocity.

Roxane Gay

Many writers, including myself, have detailed how irresponsible government actions slow economic recoveries. Similar behavior by individuals impedes growth, too. If you can't find someone reliable to do a deal with, you simply don't do the deal at all.

Amity Shlaes

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.

James A. Michener

Many people will tell you that an expert is someone who knows a great deal about the subject. To this I would object that one can never know much about any subject. I would much prefer the following definition: an expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in the subject, and how to avoid them.

Werner Heisenberg

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Donald Trump

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Gore Vidal

What's important is how you deal with fear. I face it head-on, but I'm not too proud to admit that I do get afraid sometimes.

Denzel Whitaker

Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we deal formally with what can be said about any thing or any property. We are prepared to say that one and one are two, but not that Socrates and Plato are two.

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I have never had a pair of knickers sent in the post. I've had jams, lemon drizzle cakes, West Ham football shirts and footballs and books. I've had pillowcases with my face on, tea towels with my face on, face flannels with my face on, towels with my face on.

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